This is an unusual book about an ancient landscape. Nicholas Goodison walks at Ardtornish on the west coast of Scotland, which he knows and loves. The sights that he records are not the ancient hills, rivers and lochs, the majestic seascape or the ever-changing light, but the man-made ephemera that he sees along the paths. They tell a story of agriculture, industry, transport, architecture, recreation and sport; a story too of successive owners, of farm and estate workers, contractors, visitors and holiday-makers. But they ...
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This is an unusual book about an ancient landscape. Nicholas Goodison walks at Ardtornish on the west coast of Scotland, which he knows and loves. The sights that he records are not the ancient hills, rivers and lochs, the majestic seascape or the ever-changing light, but the man-made ephemera that he sees along the paths. They tell a story of agriculture, industry, transport, architecture, recreation and sport; a story too of successive owners, of farm and estate workers, contractors, visitors and holiday-makers. But they tell also a story of decay, as water, wind and weather eat them away, a foretaste of the brevity of man's tenure of a land of unbelievable age. An art historian, the author has an eye for beauty and proportion, and finds it in unlikely objects.
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Seller's Description:
First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 12, [48]. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Signed presentation from Nicholas Goodison on a headed note card, loosely inserted, "For Diane, with warm wishes and love from us both, Nicholas and Judith." ISBN: 1904027423 Fine in fine dust jacket.
