- Publisher: Birlinn
- Year: 2025
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 304pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 240x160mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9781780279138
- Product code: 547164
Upland
A Journey Through Time and the Hills
Ian Crofton New Hardback
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Noting the rich and varied relationship that has long-existed between people and hills, Ian Crofton traces a course from the South Downs, through the Welsh Marches and peaks of Snowdon, along the Pennines and into the Cairngorms. As he walks the landscapes he keeps an eye to the flora and fauna of the present day while reflecting on the human activity that took place there over hundreds of years.
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'Fascinating and lyrical . . . A beautifully written celebration of a lifelong passion' - Stephen Venables The relationship of people with hills and mountains has been complex, rich and varied - from awe and wonder to fear and loathing, from spiritual longing to peaceful acceptance.
As he explores our high places, Ian Crofton conjures up those who have been there before: Neolithic axe-makers, mass trespassers, shepherds, quarrymen, botanists, poets and pioneering cragsmen and women among them. At the same time, he is ever attuned to the present moment - a flash of bright moss in a bog, the swoop of an eagle above a skyline, a winter sun sinking into a sea of cloud.
Following an arc from the gentle Downs of southern England to the wild peaks of Scotland's far north, Upland combines personal experiences with a keen curiosity about the history and nature of mountain landscapes, and the people who once worked and wandered among them. The result is a meditation on the enduring yet ever-changing hills, on the transience of human experience, and on the shifts and twists of time itself.
Locations included:
Chilterns (following The Ridgeway)
Malverns
Snowdon
Peak District
Pennines
Lake District
Ben Nevis
The Cuillin, Skye
Assynt (Suilven)
Cairngorms
As he explores our high places, Ian Crofton conjures up those who have been there before: Neolithic axe-makers, mass trespassers, shepherds, quarrymen, botanists, poets and pioneering cragsmen and women among them. At the same time, he is ever attuned to the present moment - a flash of bright moss in a bog, the swoop of an eagle above a skyline, a winter sun sinking into a sea of cloud.
Following an arc from the gentle Downs of southern England to the wild peaks of Scotland's far north, Upland combines personal experiences with a keen curiosity about the history and nature of mountain landscapes, and the people who once worked and wandered among them. The result is a meditation on the enduring yet ever-changing hills, on the transience of human experience, and on the shifts and twists of time itself.
Locations included:
Chilterns (following The Ridgeway)
Malverns
Snowdon
Peak District
Pennines
Lake District
Ben Nevis
The Cuillin, Skye
Assynt (Suilven)
Cairngorms
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Noting the rich and varied relationship that has long-existed between people and hills, Ian Crofton traces a course from the South Downs, through the Welsh Marches and peaks of Snowdon, along the Pennines and into the Cairngorms. As he walks the landscapes he keeps an eye to the flora and fauna of the present day while reflecting on the human activity that took place there over hundreds of years.
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