Windswept : Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands - Annie Worsley Fiction in stunning detail

in stunning detail

for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself

this sad history' that raises it to another level

With an introduction by Thomas Harding

Windswept : Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands - Annie Worsley Fiction in stunning detail`Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE `An instant classic of British nature writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland. It is a land ruled by great elemental forces light, wind and water that hold sway over how land forms, where the sea sits and what grows.