Contents
Foreword by Robert Macfarlane
PROLOGUE The Green Evenings
Secret Hills
SPRING Orkney
Northern Waters
Spar Boxes, Northern England ix
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SUMMER Summer in the North
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The Rich Boys of Bygdøy and other fragments of a summer 70 A Northward Journey and a Summer Storm 79
HARVEST Bringing Home a Portrait by Cosmo Alexander
Painting Northern Scotland
The Food of the North (with Jane Stevenson)
THE BACK END OF THE YEAR Visits in Autumn
A Letter from Copenhagen
The Grim Consolations of the North
The Aesthetics of Remoteness and the North
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