Windswept

A beautiful memoir of what it means to live in the rugged, awe-inspiring Scotland Highlands. Annie Worsley is a Professor of Environmental Change. A few years ago, she took the plunge and moved to the remote North West Highlands of Scotland. It is a land of unquenchable spirit and severe wildness. In the Highlands, life is ruled by the great elemental forces — light, wind and water hold sway over how landforms, where the sea sits, and what grows. It also dictates how its people live. Annie returns to prehistory to tell 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 she then found a home there millennia later. This is a vibrant memoir that will illuminate the beauty and force of the wild Scottish Highlands, Worsley's paean to a beloved place, one richer with colour, sound and life than perhaps anywhere else in the UK.