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Windswept

Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands

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Windswept

Yazan: Annie Worsley
Seslendiren: Carolyn Bonnyman
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‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE

‘An instant classic of British nature-writing’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

A 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. Windswept explores what it means to live in this rugged, awe-inspiring place of unquenchable spirit and wild weather.

Walk 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.

With stunning imagery and lyrical prose, Windswept 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.

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'Windswept isn’t only enjoyable and enriching, it contains some of the most striking descriptions of nature I’ve ever read … An instant classic of British nature-writing’ Horatio Clare, Sunday Telegraph
‘Let’s face it, few of us are likely to experience life as Worsley does: remote, wild, elemental, between mountains and sky. But we get a tantalising glimpse of this other world through these pages. It’s like breathing in pure, invigorating Scottish Highlands air and it is a very welcome interlude… Worsley is the Real Deal’ Daily Mail
‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose-painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas. It is a story of learning to keep time differently, in one of the most spectacular landscapes in Britain. Annie Worsley has written a gorgeous almanac or year-book in which the minutes, hours and months are marked not by the tick of clock-hands but weather-fronts, bird migrations and plant-patterns of growth and decay’ Robert Macfarlane
‘Woven with the wisdom of both scientist and poet, Windswept is a beautiful account of life and landscape in one of the UK's most remote and dramatic enclaves. I was transported with every reading, left with gale-ruffled hair and a salty tang on my tongue’ Lee Schofield author of Wild Fell
‘A shaft of golden stormlight, a blast of pure Highland air, Windswept is an exhilarating account of life lived closer to the elements than most of us will ever have the chance to experience’ Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley
‘I have read pages and pages of this wonderful book, swept away by its beauty and understanding, its chromatic brilliance, flickering and surging into colour at every turn, moulded to its mountains and all the subtleties of its winds and skies. Honestly it is a great, great book’ Adam Nicolson, author of Life Between the Tides
‘A compelling, abundantly descriptive portrait of a captivating place’ The Herald
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Emotive and beautiful writing, was a joy to listen to. The narration was exceptional, and the whole book was a delight from beginning to end. Would recommend to anyone who is a fan of Scotland, wilderness, the outdoors or the human connection to landscape. Stunning.

Beautiful work

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I adored this book. Everything about it is beautiful. the audio voice over is perfect, the book is evocative, descriptive eloquent and probably one of the most beautiful books I've ever had read to me. The descriptive quality of the author is second to none.

A truly beautiful book

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Such vivid description, the reader could be there. Beautiful narration too. Lots of interesting information re plants and birds.

Poetic description

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Beautiful evocations of the passing seasons living on a croft with scholarly knowledge of geography, geology and the natural world.

Lyrical descriptions

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