Ebook: Findings
Author: Jamie Kathleen
- Tags: LITERARY COLLECTIONS--Essays, Natural history, Natural history--Scotland, Travel, English essays, Jamie Kathleen -- 1962- -- Travel -- Scotland, Natural history -- Scotland, Scotland -- Description and travel, LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays, Jamie Kathleen -- 1962-, Scotland
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Sort Of Books
- City: New York;Scotland
- Language: English
- epub
Between the laundry and the fetching kids from school, that's how birds enter my life. I listen. During a lull in the traffic: oyster-catchers; in the school-playground, sparrows. It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary writer. Whether she is following the call of a peregrine in the hills above her home in Fife, sailing into a dark winter solstice on the Orkney islands, or pacing around the carcass of a whale on a rain-swept Hebridean beach, she creates a subtle and modern narrative, peculiarly alive to her connections and surroundings.;Cover; Title Page; Picture credits; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Darkness and Light; Peregrines, ospreys, cranes; Findings; The Braan Salmon; Crex-Crex; Fever; Markings; Surgeons' Hall; Skylines; Sabbath; Cetacean Disco; Advertisement; Copyright.
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