Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
10 best books like Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides (Adam Nicolson): The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland, Underland, Sailing Alone around the World, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas, Walking Home: A Poet's Journey, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living, Calum's Road, The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain, The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence, Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland
| Author | John Lewis-Stempel |
| ISBN | 0857523260 |
From the Winner of the Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015
Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare...
| Author | Robert Macfarlane |
| ISBN | 0393242145 |
An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.
In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...
| Author | Joshua Slocum |
| ISBN | 0140437363 |
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.
Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting...
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0140249796 |
Award-winning travel writer Paul Theroux invites you aboard The Old Patagonian Express by Train through the Americas; packed with powerful descriptions and portraits of the many colours of humanity, The Old Patagonian Express is an unforgettable read.
A witty sharply observed journey...
Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
| Author | Simon Armitage |
| ISBN | 0571249884 |
In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He resolved to tackle it the other way round: through beautiful and bleak terrain,...
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
| Author | Krista Tippett |
| ISBN | 1594206805 |
“I’m a person who listens for a living. I listen for wisdom, and beauty, and for voices not shouting to be heard. This book chronicles some of what I’ve learned in what has become a conversation across time and generations, across disciplines and denominations.”
Peabody Award-winning...
| Author | Roger Hutchinson |
| ISBN | 1841584479 |
Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. ‘So what he decided to do,’ says his last neighbour, Donald MacLeod, ‘was to build...
| Author | Christopher Somerville |
| ISBN | 0857523635 |
“In January 2006, a month or two after my father died, I thought I saw him again – a momentary impression of an old man, a little stooped, setting off for a walk in his characteristic fawn corduroys and shabby quilted jacket. It was walking that first caused rifts between us in my sulky teenage years,...
| Author | Neil Ansell |
| ISBN | 1472247116 |
Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has spent his lifetime taking solitary ventures into the wild. For any readers of the author's previous book, Deep Country, Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways or William Atkins The Moor.
The experience...
| Author | Madeleine Bunting |
| ISBN | 1847085172 |
Few landscapes are as iconic as the islands off the north-western Scottish coast. On the outer edge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Ocean, the Hebrides form part of Europe's boundary. Because of their unique position in the Atlantic archipelago, they have been at the centre of a network...
| Author | Andrew Greig |
| ISBN | 1847249965 |
I should like you to fish for me at the Loch of the Green Corrie,' MacCaig commanded months before his death. 'Go to Lochinver and ask for a man named Norman MacAskill - if he likes you he may tell you where it is. If you catch a fish, I shall be delighted. If you fail, then looking down from a place in which I do...
| Author | Kathleen Jamie |
| ISBN | 0954221745 |
It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary...
| Author | Robert Macfarlane |
| ISBN | 0571302718 |
Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll and rain-run have harrowed deep down into bedrock.
In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset's sandstone. They found their way into...
| Author | John Lewis-Stempel |
| ISBN | 0857521454 |
What really goes on in the long grass?
Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow’s life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seasons from cowslips in spring to the hay-cutting...
'I am dreaming of the edge-land again'
After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, Rob Cowen finds himself on unfamiliar territory, disoriented, hemmed in by winter and yearning for the nearest open space. So one night, he sets out to find it – a pylon-slung edge-land, a tangle of wood,...
This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0857861832/ ISBN13: 9780857861832.
The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing...
The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered—what is it that we're just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn...
