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This is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far north of Scotland. It is a book grounded in the singularity of one place - a house in northern Aberdeenshire - and threaded through with an unshowy commitment to the lost and the forgotten. In these painterly essays Davidson reflects on art, place, history and landscape. Distance and Memory is his testament to the cold, clear beauty of the north.
Contents
Foreword by Robert Macfarlane
Prologue
The Green Evenings Secret Hills
SPRINGOrkney Northern Waters Spar Boxes, Northern England
SUMMERSummer in the North The Rich Boys of Bygdøy and other fragments of a summer A Northward Journey and a Summer Storm
HARVESTBringing Home a Portrait by Cosmo Alexander Painting Northern Scotland The Food of the North (with Jane Stevenson)
THE BACK END OF THE YEARVisits in Autumn A Letter from Copenhagen The Grim Consolations of the North The Aesthetics of Remoteness and the North
WINTERWinter in the North
Epilogue: The Snow over Madrid
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