Poacher's Pilgrimage by McIntosh, Alastair

Poacher's Pilgrimage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781532634475)

Vendor: Alastair McIntosh
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Format: Hardcover
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Poacher's Pilgrimage by McIntosh, Alastair

Poacher's Pilgrimage

$61.00
Poacher's Pilgrimage by McIntosh, Alastair

Poacher's Pilgrimage

$61.00
Format: Hardcover
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The islands of the Outer Hebrides are home to some of the most remote and spectacular scenery in the world. They host an astonishing range of mysterious structures - stone circles, beehive dwellings, holy wells and 'temples' from the Celtic era. Over a twelve-day pilgrimage, often in appalling conditions, Alastair McIntosh returns to the islands of his childhood and explores the meaning of these places. Traversing moors and mountains, struggling through torrential rivers, he walks from the most southerly tip of Harris to the northerly Butt of Lewis. The book is a walk through space and time, across a physical landscape and into a spiritual one. As he battled with his own ability to endure some of the toughest terrain in Britain, he met with the healing power of the land and its communities. This is a moving book, a powerful reflection not simply of this extraordinary place and its people met along the way, but of imaginative hope for humankind.

Author: Alastair McIntosh
ISBN-10: 1532634471
ISBN-13: 9781532634475
Publisher: Cascade Books
Language: English
Published: 03/09/2018
Pages: 470
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d
By Alastair McIntosh
By Alastair McIntosh
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Alastair McIntosh (b. 1955) is a Scottish writer, broadcaster and activist on social, environmental and spiritual issues, raised on the Isle of Lewis. A Fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology, a former Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Divinity (New College) at Edinburgh University, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the College of Social Sciences at Glasgow University, he holds a BSc from the University of Aberdeen, an MBA from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in liberation theology and land reform from the University of Ulster.



His books include Hell & High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition on the cultural and spiritual dimensions of climate change, Rekindling Community on the spiritual basis of inter-relationship, and Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power on land reform and environmental protection--the latter described as "world changing" by George Monbiot, "life changing" by the Bishop of Liverpool and "truly mental" by Thom Yorke of Radiohead.

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