Jim Crumley

This is the work of a man who has known and loved and grown intimate with the Cairngorms over more than thirty years. Crumley marks nature’s rhythms with thoughtful and often delightful observations of bird and beast, flower and landscape. In the process he strives for a purer empathy with the wilds, seeks out the nourishing bond of man and landscape. But ultimately, the book asserts that the Cairngorms are nature’s place. Crumley proposes a radical solution to safeguard the mountains from a threatening array of forces ranged against them, and in a memorable conclusion, invokes what Seton Gordon called ‘the spirit of the high and lonely places’.