Sea Room
by Adam Nicolson
A classic work of landscape writing from the author of The Seagull’s Cry and The Mighty Dead.
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“The books is filled with the most beautiful and elegant prose. It has geography, geology, history, ecology. It talks about the weather, the sea, his own relationship with the land. It’s beautiful. But I chose it not just because it’s a beautifully written book, but because it gives us a little sliver of the Highlands itself.” Read more...
The best books on The Scottish Highlands
Annie Worsley, Memoirist
“It’s a beautiful read and because it conveys in spare, unromanticised prose the lifelong love affair that Nicolson has with these islands in the Minch, between the Scottish mainland and the Isle of Lewis – which were given to him by his father.” Read more...
Gavin Francis, Travel Writer
“Nicolson inherited these tiny islands called the Shiants, which are in the Hebrides in Northwest Scotland. This is the book he wrote about them.” Read more...
Sara Maitland, Novelist
