Upland
A Journey through Time and the Hills
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'Crofton draws on a lifetime of walking and climbing across Britain and takes us on a unique journey through time and the hills'
» Dawn Geddes, Scots Magazine
'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.
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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
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Birlinn Ltd
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781780279138
- Utgivelsesår
- 2025
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
Om forfatteren
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.
Anmeldelser
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'Crofton draws on a lifetime of walking and climbing across Britain and takes us on a unique journey through time and the hills'
» Dawn Geddes, Scots Magazine
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'Skilfully weaves together personal and family stories, prehistory and history, literature, art, geology, nature and more in a glorious mix of everything the hills have to offer. This rich mix of subjects is wonderful... excellent with much to enjoy and to learn'
» Chris Townsend, Great Outdoors
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'Informative, evocative … a welcome addition to the nature-writing bookshelf'
» Sarah Lonsdale, Times Literary Supplement
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'Upland draws on a lifetime's hillwalking and climbing, and yet it's so much more than a simple memoir. Mining rich seams of culture and natural history, it ranges far and wide in its exploration of hills as a human experience - mountains not in the abstract, but as places we've lived and worked in, climbed and dreamed about for millennia'
» Dan Bailey, UK Climbing & UK Hillwalking
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'Ian has a well-honed knack of weaving a literary web linking man and the landscape . . . a tome to engross yourself in whether you are an armchair mountaineer or a tough guy reliving past glories.
» Adrian Trendall, All Things Cuillin
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'this book is written—beautifully—from the stance of a walker and historian'
» Kate Green, Country Life
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'beautifully crafted and captivating... Crofton proves to be an insightful and genial guide'
» Sunday Post
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'This is a constantly surprising and fascinating look at not just the mountains but about the people who work, play, live and travel there, through history and in the present day.... this books a was delight throughout'
» Neil Reid, Scottish Mountaineer Magazine
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'Rich in memories and beautifully written, Ian Crofton’s account of a lifetime walking the hills and mountains of Scotland, England and Wales makes for a delightful book'
» Allan Massie, The Scotsman
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'A fascinating and lyrical exploration of what the hills mean to those who have lived and worked among them, and to those who walk and climb among them today . . . A beautifully written celebration of a lifelong passion'
» Stephen Venables
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'A wonderfully evocative ode to the high places of Great Britain'
» Ken Lussey, Undiscovered Scotland
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