Neil Ansell

The author likes to walk alone. He visits remote spots in the western highlands of Scotland near the coast at different times of year. His writing follows his rambling. And rambling it is. He wanders with only vaguely specific places in mind. Quite happy to be diverted if he finds something interesting along the way. The descriptions of landscape and wildlife are detailed. He paints a good picture. He reminisces about yoiuthful hitchhiking in South America telling us he deliberately did not take a camera as the constant thought about what might be an interesting picture would have distracted him from enjoying the moment. Which make me wonder about his writing style. It's detailed. Does he take notes as he goes along? Does he sit every night and right up the day's events? Or does he have good recall and puts it all down days, weeks or months later? Is the thought that his purpose in wandering is to write about it colour how he sees things? Is it as distracting as a camera might have been?… (altro)