Windswept - Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands

Informationen zum Autor Annie O'Garra Worsley is a writer and blogger living in North West Scotland on a small-holding known as a croft. She is also a physical geographer with particular interests in spatial and temporal relationships between people and the natural world. Her doctoral research examined human impacts in the montane rainforests of New Guinea and her more recent work investigated long-term environmental change in the peat bogs, hills and coasts of North West England and the spatial and temporal history of pollution in urban environments. After a career break raising her four children, she returned to full-time academic life in 1999 and was awarded a Personal Chair in Environmental Change in 2009 by Edge Hill University. Klappentext '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 Zusammenfassung ‘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

About the author

Annie O'Garra Worsley is a writer and blogger living in North West Scotland on a small-holding known as a croft. She is also a physical geographer with particular interests in spatial and temporal relationships between people and the natural world. Her doctoral research examined human impacts in the montane rainforests of New Guinea and her more recent work investigated long-term environmental change in the peat bogs, hills and coasts of North West England and the spatial and temporal history of pollution in urban environments. After a career break raising her four children, she returned to full-time academic life in 1999 and was awarded a Personal Chair in Environmental Change in 2009 by Edge Hill University.

Product details

• Authors: Annie Worsley
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780008278373
• ISBN: 978-0-00-827837-3
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 222 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; NATURE / General, Memoirs, The countryside, country life: general interest, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Northern Scotland, Highlands & Islands, The countryside, country life, c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019, Northern Scotland, Highlands and Islands, Western Isles, Outer Hebrides, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs