James Crawford

Wild History (eBook, ePUB)

Journeys into Lost Scotland

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the Sky.

You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past. Perhaps they are marked by a tiny symbol on your map, perhaps not. There are no plaques to explain their fading presence before you, nothing to account for what they once were - who made them, lived in them or abandoned them. Now they are merged with the landscape. They are being reclaimed by nature. They are wild history.

In this book acclaimed author and presenter James Crawford introduces many such places all over the country, from the ruins of prehistoric forts and ancient, arcane burial sites, to abandoned bothies and boathouses, and the derelict traces of old, faded industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Birlinn
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781788855259
• Artikelnr.: 66881766

Autorenporträt

James Crawford is a writer and broadcaster, and for over a decade he worked for and researched Scotland's national collection of architecture and archaeology. He is the author of nine books, including Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Lost Buildings and The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World, both of which were shortlisted for Non-Fiction Book of the Year at Scotland's National Book Awards. He is the writer and presenter of the BBC One series Scotland from the Sky, the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Take Four Books and in 2024 he was appointed Chair of the Board of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.