Robin Lloyd-Jones is a remarkable man, having been director of Scotland's first curriculum development centre, an Education Adviser in Strathclyde Region,a part-time tutor in Creative Writing at Glasgow University and is a former president of The Scottish Association of Writers (1993-96) and of Scottish PEN (1997-2000). For 17 years he chaired Scottish PEN's Writers in Prison Committee (now renamed Writers at Risk), which campaigns on behalf of persecuted writers and champions freedom of expression, and he remains active in this field. Robin has also won, or been nominated for, a number of awards including, Saltire Society Research Book of the Year (2013), BBC Award for Best New Radio Drama (1994), the Booker Prize (1983 & 1985),Scottish Association of Writers' Constable Trophy (1983) and the BBC Bookshelf First Novel Award (1983).
For relaxation Robin enjoys mountaineering, sea kayaking, photography and chess and now runs the Autumn Voices blog, the aim of which is to encourage creativity in later life.
Robin Lloyd-Jones has been exploring the west coast and islands of Scotland in his sea kayak for more than forty years. In this book he recalls many a memorable expedition to wild and beautiful shores. Amongst magnificent scenery and ever-changing seas, we are transported to Jura, Scarba, the Garvellach Isles, Mull, Staffa, the Treshnish Isles, the Monach Isles, Iona, Lewis and the Uists, Skye, the Orkneys, and the Shetland Isles.
Along the way, he explains a great deal about kayaking, about the wildlife and history of the areas he visits. More than that, however, he makes us feel that we are with him in his kayak. Through his vivid and beautifully crafted prose, we experience the terror of a force nine gale, the tranquillity of moonlit trips, and the lure of tiny bays and seal-meadows accessible only to a slim kayak. We encounter dolphins, otters, unidentified monsters and nuclear submarines.
This is a book to set the imagination adrift and appeal to the Robinson Crusoe in all of us; a book for those seeking wider horizons, be their vessel an armchair or a kayak.
Título : Argonauts of the Scottish Isles
EAN : 9781788853101
Editorial : Birlinn
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