Ian Crofton 
Upland [EPUB ebook] 
A Journey through Time and the Hills

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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

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Ian Crofton’s books exploring the interplay of landscape, nature and history include Walking the Border: A Journey between Scotland and England, rated by both The Guardian and Trail magazine as ‘excellent’. His Fringed with Mud and Pearls: An English Island Odyssey was described by the BBC’s Countryfile as ‘really engaging’, and by Coast magazine as ‘a fascinating study about what it means to exist on the fringes’; it was selected by the Telegraph as one of their top twenty travel books of 2021. Upland: A Journey Through Time and the Hills was published in May 2025.

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язык английский ● Формат EPUB ● страницы 304 ● ISBN 9781788857758 ● Размер файла 3.8 MB ● издатель Birlinn ● город London ● Страна GB ● опубликованный 2025 ● Загружаемые 24 месяцы ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 10050218 ● Защита от копирования Социальный DRM

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