Top 10 books about the Scottish Highlands and Islands
Attributo da The Guardian
10 opere 8,057 libri 290 recensioni 3.9
Remote yet magnetic, the rugged environments of Scotland’s north have been inspiring writing for centuries, whether in memoir, natural history or tales of alien hitchhikers...
“Wherever I mostra altro wander, wherever I rove / The hills of the Highlands forever I love,” said Robert Burns, and I high-five him wholeheartedly.
I’ve been obsessed with the Scottish Highlands and Islands since first going there on a family holiday at the age of 10. Its remote, rugged landscape has pulled me back most years since, whether to stay in the remote Moor of Rannoch hotel – where the nearest village is 13 miles away – or camping in Glen Coe and Glen Nevis .
To me, it’s the most beautiful place on Earth, but to ignore its raw, forbidding nature would be wrong. It’s a real place, and real people live there. [...]
In fact and fiction, these books shine different lights on Scotland’s distant north.
Kerry Andrew – LT author page mostra meno
“Wherever I mostra altro wander, wherever I rove / The hills of the Highlands forever I love,” said Robert Burns, and I high-five him wholeheartedly.
I’ve been obsessed with the Scottish Highlands and Islands since first going there on a family holiday at the age of 10. Its remote, rugged landscape has pulled me back most years since, whether to stay in the remote Moor of Rannoch hotel – where the nearest village is 13 miles away – or camping in Glen Coe and Glen Nevis .
To me, it’s the most beautiful place on Earth, but to ignore its raw, forbidding nature would be wrong. It’s a real place, and real people live there. [...]
In fact and fiction, these books shine different lights on Scotland’s distant north.
Kerry Andrew – LT author page mostra meno
Opera | Etichetta d'ordinamento |
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The Crow Road (1992) di Iain Banks | 1 |
The Outrun (2016) di Amy Liptrot | 2 |
Corrag: A Novel (2010) di Susan Fletcher | 3 |
Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis (2007) di Ali Smith | 4 |
A Last Wild Place (1984) di Mike Tomkies | 5 |
Sotto la pelle (2004) di Michel Faber | 6 |
Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey (2016) di Madeleine Bunting | 7 |
An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales (2012) di Theresa Breslin | 8 |
Le soprano (1998) di Alan Warner | 9 |
Natural History in the Highlands and Islands (1947) di F. Fraser Darling | 10 |
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