Some Days from a Hill Diary
Scotland, Iceland, Norway, 1943-50
The author presents extracts from his hill diary in Scotland, Iceland and Norway, including hill-walking, rock and snow climbing, ski-mountaineering, observing wildlife, and being with mountaineering companions and local people. These diary days started in 1943 when he was 13. They continued through a personal exploration of hill country, often solo, until 1951. The book portrays his excitement as he trod his beloved hills at first in summer and then in winter snow, and his joy at the beauty of nature. In his diary he caught his experiences of long days on the hills, describing views, wildlife, weather and local folk so vividly that readers e…
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- ISBN: 978-1-908341-48-8
- EAN: 9781908341488
- Produktnummer: 12453877
- Verlag: Paragon Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 134 S.
- Masse: H28.0 cm x B21.6 cm x D0.7 cm 358 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 358
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ADAM WATSON was brought up at Turriff in Aberdeenshire. At age seven he became interested in snow and a year later in summer snow-patches in the Cairngorms, the largest expanse of high hill country in Scotland. Then at age nine, his life changed after reading Seton Gordon's (SG) classic book 'The Cairngorm Hills of Scotland'. Adam wrote to Seton soon after, he replied, and they corresponded for the rest of Seton's life. Adam was obsessively keen on the Cairngorms. At 13, alone, he saw his first pair of ptarmigan and thought they were the most beautiful birds in the world, more than eagles, his first pair of which he saw later that day. Adam has been studying eagles in Deeside since. In the 1950s he met other eagle pioneers Charlie Palmar and Pat Sandeman, and Leslie Brown especially made a big influence on what should and could be studied on eagles. Although Adam worked as a biologist, all his studies of eagles have been in his own time.
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