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Antlers of Water - Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland

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Zusatztext A bravura collection of essays on the splendour and wildness of the Scottish landscape, Antlers of Water is edited by the acclaimed Kathleen Jamie and draws together a stellar list of contributors Informationen zum Autor Gavin Francis is an award-winning writer and GP. He is the author of four books of non-fiction, including Adventures in Human Being , which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Saltire Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, and Empire Antarctica , which won Scottish Book of the Year in the SMIT Awards and was shortlisted for both the Ondaatje and Costa Prizes. He has written for the Guardian , The Times , the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books . His work is published in eighteen languages. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. @gavinfranc | gavinfrancis.com Amy Liptrot has published her work with various magazines, journals and blogs and she has written a regular column for Caught by the River out of which The Outrun has emerged. As well as writing for her local newspaper, Orkney Today , and editing the Edinburgh Student newspaper, Amy has worked as an artist's model, a trampolinist and in a shellfish factory. This is her first book. Malachy Tallack is one of the most exciting and critically acclaimed writers to emerge from Scotland in the past decade, and has won praise from Robert Macfarlane, Bernard MacLaverty, Sara Baume, Madeleine Bunting, Will Self and John Burnside, among others. He was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award for 60 Degrees North ; The Un-Discovered Islands was named Illustrated Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2016; and The Valley at the Centre of the World was shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize and longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. @malachytallack | malachytallack.com Amanda Thomson is a Scottish writer and visual artist, and a lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art. Her first book, A Scots Dictionary of Nature , was published in 2018. She has spoken at many book festivals and had her work published in Antlers of Water, Willowherb Review, The Wild Isles, Gifts of Gravity and Light and the Guardian. She lives and works in Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands and Glasgow. @passingplace | passingplace.com Klappentext The first modern anthology of Scottish nature writing which acknowledges the realities of our times, edited, curated, and introduced by the award-winning author of Findings Zusammenfassung The first modern anthology of Scottish nature writing which acknowledges the realities of our times, edited, curated and introduced by the award-winning author of Findings Inhaltsverzeichnis kathleenjamie.com ...

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Authors , Jacqueline Bain, Anne Campbell, Kathleen Jamie
Assisted by Kathleen Jamie (Editor)
Publisher Canongate Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 06.08.2020
 
EAN 9781786899798
ISBN 978-1-78689-979-8
No. of pages 304
Dimensions 162 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

NATURE / Essays, Scotland, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Nature and the natural world: general interest, Poetry anthologies (various poets)

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