'Consistently well written, sometimes dazzlingly so' Independent. 'Moving and utterly memorable, a triumph' The Times. 'If you have a desire to luxuriate in the most beautiful use of the English language borne along by the love of one gifted poet for a recognized master of melancholy, then this is the book for you. It most certainly is the book for me' Billy Connelly. 'A ruminative, beautifully written book that is at once a biography of MacCaig, an account of a journey in North West Scotland and a captivating memoir of Greig's life as a poet, Himalayan climber and fisherman' Sunday Times. 'It is completely absorbing ... and the intense self-scrutiny is matched by landscape writing worthy of Stevenson himself. Over and over, Grieg makes place into an event in its own right' Guardian.
Andrew Greig has written over twenty acclaimed books of poetry, non-fiction and novels, the most recent being Later That Day; You Know Who You Could Be (with Mike Heron); and Fair Helen respectively. Elements of these genres, along with a love of adventure and landscape, mark all his writing and give it its particular quality. A full-time writer and sometimes musician, he lives in Edinburgh and Orkney with his wife, novelist Lesley Glaister.
'If you have a desire to luxuriate in the most beautiful use of the
English language borne along by the love of one gifted poet for a
recognized master of melancholy, then this is the book for you. It
most certainly is the book for me'
*Billy Connelly*
'It is completely absorbing ... and the intense self-scrutiny is
matched by landscape writing worthy of Robert Louis Stevenson
himself'
*Guardian*
'A ruminative, beautifully written book that is at once a biography
of MacCaig, an account of a journey in North West Scotland and a
captivating memoir of Greig's life as a poet, Himalayan climber and
fisherman'
*Sunday Times*
'Moving and utterly memorable, a triumph'
*The Times*
'This is nature writing of the first order ... a luminous hymn to
life and love and our land'
*Scotland on Sunday*
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