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Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"With her poet's eye and naturalist's affinity for wild places, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field in this enthralling collection of fourteen essays whose power derives from the stubborn attention she pays to everything around her. Jamie roams her native Scottish 'byways and hills' and sails north to encounter whalebones and icebergs. Interweaving personal history with her scrutiny of landscape, Jamie dissects whatever her gaze falls upon--from...
2) Surfacing
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of essays exploring the nature of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning author of Sightlines"--
"In this remarkable collection, part travelogue, part cultural and personal history, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past...
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