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Among the Summer Snows: A Highlands Walk

Among the Summer Snows: A Highlands Walk

by Christopher Nicholson (Author)

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    Hardcover 2017

    $3.49
Synopsis

Christopher Nicholson's first book of nature writing is a beautiful account of an unusual obsession. In 2016 he spent August searching for the remaining snows of the Scottish Highlands. His account of his solitary walk is by turns funny, fascinating and inspiring. A meditation on walking, mountains, snow and our changing climate, Nicholson also turns his curious eye on nature-lovers themselves. What are we looking for when we walk and what is it we want from nature? What is it we see and what is it we miss? What remains when we are gone and what have we lost from the landscape forever?

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 176
 Publisher: September Publishing
Published: 13 Jun 2017
ISBN 10: 1910463604
ISBN 13: 9781910463604

Media Reviews
'A beautiful book about love and loss, fragility and chance, the wide world and the near world . . . full of intense light and colour, extraordinary glimpses, moving insights and subtle humour.' - Richard Kerridge, author of Cold Blood
Author Bio
Christopher Nicholson was born in London in 1956. He lives in south-west England. His first novel, THE FATTEST MAN IN AMERICA, was published in 2005. THE ELEPHANT KEEPER, which followed in 2009, was shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel award and for the Encore Award. His third novel, WINTER, about the life of the elderly Thomas Hardy, was published in 2014. A non-fiction book, AMONG THE SUMMER SNOWS, was published in June 2017. A meditation on life and loss, it is organised around a series of walks to the great snow-beds that survive each summer in the Scottish mountains. It was shortlisted for the 2017 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Writing, and is currently longlisted for the 2018 Highland Book Prize.