The Summer Isles : a voyage of the imagination
Marsden, Philip, 1961-2020
Book
This is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the exposed and exhilarating western coasts of Ireland and Scotland. It is a course that has been followed for centuries by explorers and adventurers, fishermen and monks, all drawn to the western seas and their distant horizons. But as much as the journey of men, this book is about the journey of ideas: of nostalgia and a very particular kind of geographical yearning; of a culture and language that has been shaped by its dramatic topography; of the local legend and lore that live on to this day.
Main title:
The Summer Isles : a voyage of the imagination / Philip Marsden.
Author:
Marsden, Philip, 1961-, author
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2020.
Collation:
338 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781783783007 (pbk)
Dewey class:
914.1152
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2947600