ISBN: 9781783969562 - shiver: the lessons of the lochs - as featured on bbc radio 4 woman’s hour (6 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. * AS FEATURED ON WOMANS HOUR BBC RADIO 4 A COAST BOOK OF THE MONTH After Brigid Lowes life is upended, she turns to Scotlands wild waters for refuge and for reckoning. Drawn deeper by their bone cold comfort, she set herself a challenge: to swim a thousand lochs. And so her adventures begin: stepping into ice and caves and sacred springs, she swims with birds, conger eels and seals, in lochs held in dripping forest, towering mountains and ancient moor, alone and with her children in tow. Immersed in these secret pools, with their vaulting chasms and softer shallows, she tests the line between recklessness and safety, pain and pleasure and, at last, life and death discovering new depths of strength, endurance and fluent potential. Shiver is a love-letter to Scotland its flowers and rocks, myths and legends, highlands and islands and to its chill waters, which swept Brigid off her feet only to carry her back home again. _______ A book to bring delight to lovers of water in all its forms and manifestations, to wild swimmers and lovers of wildness, gorgeous landscapes and, above all, of Scotland. Esther Woolfson, author of Corvus As clear and magical as the Highland lochs and as filled with colour as the Hebridean seas in which she swims. Annie Worsley, author of Windswept Luminous, graceful, and immersive. its greatest gift lingers long after the final page is closed, like a long-forgotten call to return to the watery world of our wild selves. Victoria Bennett, author of The Apothecary By the Sea WINNER OF THE RSL GILES ST AUBYN AWARD FOR NON-FICTION. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*AS FEATURED ON WOMAN'S HOUR - BBC RADIO 4After Brigid Lowe's world is upended, Scotland becomes her home. Its icy, wild waters a place of a visceral relief. Baptising herself into this new life, she determines to swim the country's thirty thousand lochs. To plunge into this landscape in the hopes of gaining a fluid sense of herself and who she might become.And so Brigid's loch adventures begin: stepping into ice and caves and sacred springs, she swims with birds, conger eels and seals, across forest and mountain and moor, alone and with her children in tow. And as she comes to know these secretive pools, with their vaulting depths and softer shallows, she walks the line between recklessness and safety, discovering new edges of pain and pleasure, of strength and endurance.Shiver is a love-letter to Caledonia - its flowers and rocks, its bogs and legends and hills - and to its chill waters, which swept Brigid off her feet only to carry her back home again._____'A book to bring delight to lovers of water in all its forms and manifestations. Brigid Lowe inspires us by piercing observation and the indomitability of her spirit.' Esther Woolfson, author of Corvus: A Life With Birds'A real cold-lovers tour of the waters of Scotland. Shiver will make you want to get out your maps, pack up your swimming kit, fill your flask, and make plans.' Polly Atkin, author of Swimming the Seasons'Immersive, insightful and beautifully written. Brigid Lowe invites us to reclaim our adventurous spirit.' Elizabeth Sulis Kim, author of The Book of Beasts: Reclaiming Animal Wisdom'Luminous, graceful, and immersive. Shiver invites us to loosen our grip on who we have been, and to find our way home. like a long-forgotten call to return to the watery world of our wild selves.' Victoria Bennett, author of The Apothecary By the Sea.…

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