Of all the parts of Scotland that look like places a naturalist such as myself would wish to remain all my days, the Isle of Mull in the inner Hebrides off the country’s west coat is most certainly at the top of the list.
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Mark Enjoys a Nice Cracker
For his Sunday book review this week, Mark takes up in his most recent review: Andrew Paintings’ forthcoming “Regeneration; the Rescue of a Wild Land” from the independent Scottish publishing house Birlinn. Describing it as “a cracker” and worthy of particularly favorable association with other recent books on the subject of habitat restoration and rewinding.
The Dark Stuff
Despite how often I’ve read about the U.K.’s mysterious and danger-filled moorlands in the works of Dickens and the Brontës, growing up in the coastal rainforest of the Pacific Northwest as I did it has never fully made sense to me how so many people have for so long perceived such peril in what appears to be simply a softly colored landscape of gently rolling hillocks and the occasional dramatic stone outcrop.