Up hill and down dale
Gavin Maxwell chose to live in a remote house on a remote island in Scotland. Here he describes the extraordinary...
Appetite for the absolute
Perhaps the enduring attraction to island life isn't just to get away from the rest of it, or to enjoy...
Mist-hung mountains
For ten years or so, Gavin Maxwell spent as much time as he could living in a remote cottage in...
Wind-besieged islands
The North Sea is full of such islands and Nicolson finds in a place of 'sun-trap warmth', sheltered from the...
A singing map
I loved this idea, using a song to guide you in lieu of a map. From one of Rory Stewart's...
Spring-time welcome
My heart also expands at the spring-time welcome of where I live and where I visit. Here, the detail of...
Podcast review – Adam Nicolson’s Sea Room
Listening time: 19 minutes. Having inherited, at the age of 21, the Shiants, three small islands east of...
Don’t stand in my way
I love these passing human vignettes which an author could easily edit out for not being central to the story,...
Sun-trap warmth
A haven of calm and enveloping warmth in places blasted by wind and cold. A place where a monk arriving...
Tissue-thin vulnerability
Among other things, Sea Room is a study of human strategies for survival over millennia, of the fragility and tenacity...
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