WINDSWEPT: LIFE NATURE AND DEEP TIME/ HIGHLANDS (PB)

In the north-west Highlands of Scotland, life is ruled by great elemental forces - light, wind and water hold sway over how land forms, where the sea sits, and what grows. It also dictates how its people live. This book tells the epic story of how Scotland’s valleys were carved by glaciers, how rivers scythed paths through the mountains, how the earliest people found a way of life in the Highlands - and how the author found a home there, millennia later after trading a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding croft by the coast. With stunning imagery and lyrical prose, it evokes a place where nature reigns supreme and humans must learn to adapt.