{"product_id":"9780008278373_windswept-life-nature-and-deep-time-in-the-scottish-highlands","title":"Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eWindswept\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘An instant classic of British nature-writing’ \u003cem\u003eSUNDAY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland. It is a land ruled by great elemental forces – light, wind and water – that hold sway over how land forms, where the sea sits and what grows. \u003cem\u003eWindswept\u003c\/em\u003e explores what it means to live in this rugged, awe-inspiring place of unquenchable spirit and wild weather.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalk with Annie as she lays quartz stones in the river to reflect the moonlight and attract salmon, as she watches otters play tag across the beach, as she is awoken by the feral bellowing of stags. Travel back in time to the epic story of how Scotland’s valleys were carved by glaciers, rivers scythed paths through mountains, how the earliest people found a way of life in the Highlands – and how she then found a home there millennia later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith stunning imagery and lyrical prose, \u003cem\u003eWindswept\u003c\/em\u003e evokes a place where nature reigns supreme and humans must learn to adapt. It is her paean to a beloved place, one richer with colour, sound and life than perhaps anywhere else in the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Annie Worsley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46898389450901,"sku":"9780008278373","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008278373_5c471d88-ab18-4853-a5a4-1fa4169fb0d5.jpg?v=1776888208","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008278373_windswept-life-nature-and-deep-time-in-the-scottish-highlands","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}