Summer Isles, The: A Voyage of the Imagination

Summer Isles, The: A Voyage of the Imagination
Philip Marsden
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 352pg
18 Jun 2020 UK
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9781783783007
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From the acclaimed author of Rising Ground, this is the story of a sea voyage to the Summer Isles, an enticing, periodically inhabited archipelago off the Scottish Highlands. To reach them, Marsden must head north, sailing a course along the exposed and exhilarating western coasts of Ireland and Scotland. It is a course that has been followed for centuries by explorers and adventurers, fishermen and monks, all drawn to the western seas and their distant horizons. But as much as the journey of men, this book is about the journey of ideas: of nostalgia and a very particular kind of geographical yearning; of a culture and language that has been shaped by its dramatic topography; of the local legend and lore that live on to this day. Combining travel writing, memoir and cultural history, The Summer Isles is a book about the search for real places, for imagined places, and for places that might always exist somewhere in between.
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ISBN-13: 9781783783007
Published: 18 Jun 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Books
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 294g
Pages: 352

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