BookReview
CAIRNGORM JOHN
A Life in Mountain Rescue
JOHN ALLEN
The exciting story of mountain rescue
in the Cairngorms is told by the
Cairngorm Mountain RescueTeam’s
Leader of more than twenty years,
JohnAllen.Provided with a glowing
introduction by Sir Chris Bonington
this book will quickly be recognised
as a classic of mountain literature.
£19.99 hb
WHITE RIVER FICKLE MAN
A Journey Up and Down the River Robert Burns in the 21st Century
Findhorn Johnny Rodger&Gerard
JAMIE WHITTLE Carruthers (eds)
The new kind of environmental book
21st century Burns scholarship is
that isWHITE RIVER introduces a
making some unexpected and exciting
startling talent in the literature of the
discoveries about the poet and his
Earth.Still a young man JamieWhittle
work.Robert Burns has also become
has already quartered the globe,
an inspiration for a new generation of
visiting wild places in the Pacific,
artists – not only poets and literary
Central and SouthernAmerica,Africa,
artists,but visual and installation
theYukon and Highland Scotland,
artists,sculptors,and architects. AT THE EDGE tells the story of a 1500 kilometre walk
living and working for a period witha
£23.99 hb from the southwest corner of Ireland to the northwest
familyinLadakhandsharingtheirlives.
corner of Scotland.By following theAtlantic coast all
£9.99 pb
the way,Joseph Murphy links the most vibrant Gaelic
A BEND IN THE NILE communities.Reflections on identity,culture and
My Life in Nubia and Other Places sustainability,and use of Gaelic in the text,make this a
Chris McIvor unique and memorable book.It will appeal particularly
to those with Irish or Scottish heritage and no doubt
In this absorbing account Chris McIvor
some will want to do the journey themselves –
discoversAfrica,finds love – and loses
although perhaps not on foot.
it – travels through the desert,along
Joseph Murphy works in the Sustainability Research
the Nile,and finally visits the war-
Institute at the University of Leeds.A keen walker and
locked region of Chad.Often in
enthusiast for long-distance trails,he has hiked coast-
danger,and reliant on the kindness of
to-coast across the Pyrenees twice.At the Edge is his
strangers,he comes to love the wide
first book for a wider audience and the route is the
territory known as Nubia and takes
longest he has completed.
the first steps of his life’s work in
This book is a glorious illustration of how the
overseas aid.
coastline will surrender its riches to the enquiring
£11.99 pb
visitor.It encourages us to think hard about the
meaning of sustainable development.Some will agree
BETWEEN WEATHERS THE KERRACHER MAN
with its arguments and others will disagree.Perhaps it
Travels in 21st Century Shetland Eric MacLeod
is only the starting point for debate.It is surely the case,
RON McMILLAN
however,that culture and language must be part of any
Back in the 70s when the world lived
meaningful definition of sustainability.–The Rt Hon
The Shetland Islands sit where the in smock tops and flares,Eric and Ruth
Alex Salmond MSPMP First Minister of Scotland.
NorthAtlantic Ocean and the North MacLeod took themselves and their
£11.99 pb
Sea meet,closer to theArctic Circle two small daughters off to an
than to London.Over the centuries abandoned crofthouse in the remotest
they have been a vital staging post for quarter of theWest Highlands.Rocky
Vikings,Hanseatic traders and and windswept it was an unlikely
merchant sailors from faraway lands. Eden,even after they cleared the dead
Yet somehow,the same islands remain sheep from the living room floor.
‘off the map’ of British consciousness. £8.95 pb
£11.99 pb
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