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Wilderness Dreams: The Call of Scotland's Last Wild Places by Mike Cawthorne (Paperback, 2007)
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This book has been a long time in the writing. While Mike Cawthorne's life over the last two decades has been mostly involved in climbing and journalism, he has managed to stow away a large memory bank of experiences of his times spent deep within the wilderness areas of Scotland. These 8 extended essays begin with a canoe trip down the River Dee in 2002 ( Tale of Two Rivers ) and his epic round of the Munros in the company of his friend Dave Hughes in 1986 ( Paupers and Kings ). Terra Ingognita deals with the Monadliath mountains, 'one of the last places left on these crowded islands where you can experience genuine solitude'. Crofting on the Edge deals with people Mike has encountered who have chosen to live in the most remote and inaccessible areas of Scotland as does The Hermit's Story , which describes the life that James McRory-Smith chose to lead in Strathailleach, a shepherd's cottage near Cape Wrath. A Last Wild Place describes the ruination of many of these wilderness areas and the efforts made by large energy companies to exploit these special places. '...only wilderness if you can be killed and eaten' is a quote by American writer Edward Abbey referring to grizzly bears stalking humans in the Rockies. Mike recalls this in Dying for Trees as he spends a day on Creag Meagaidh with a deer-stalking party where a minor bio-diversity miracle has taken place by carefully controlling deer numbers to allow the spread of broadleaf woodland. Scotland's Alaska is the final essay on Sutherland's flow country...'the best and worst of wild Britain.'Product Identifiers
PublisherNeil Wilson Publishing
ISBN-139781903238905
eBay Product ID (ePID)87231003
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Book TitleWilderness Dreams: the Call of Scotland's Last Wild Places
AuthorMike Cawthorne
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicTravel Writing
Publication Year2007
Number of Pages176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height235mm
Item Width153mm
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Title_AuthorMike Cawthorne
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 14 Feb, 2018
Good Scottish reading
Having read this authors previous books on Scottish walking , I decided to get this one too, it is a good read for anyone interested in Scotland, walking, camping. , I preferred it to the second book in the group, but the first was the best (hell of a journey) simply because it was one long journey , the following two cover moments in childhood, other books read and characters met read, etc.. All are bedtime reading as some concentration need for the in depth detail, briliiant .,Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
