The Bone Cave
eBook - ePub

The Bone Cave

A Journey through Myth and Memory

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Bone Cave

A Journey through Myth and Memory

About this book

This is a book about stories – old stories of people and place, and of the more-than-human world. A vivid account of a journey through the Scottish Highlands, The Bone Cave follows a series of folktales and myths to the places in which they're set. Travelling mostly on foot, and camping along the way amid some of Scotland's most beautiful and rugged landscapes, Dougie Strang encounters a depth of meaning to the tales he tracks – one that offers a unique perspective on place, culture, land ownership and ecological stewardship, as well as insights into his own entanglement with place. Dougie sets out on his walk at the beginning of October, which also marks the start of the red deer rut. The bellowing of stags forms the soundtrack to his journey and is a reminder that, as well as mapping invisible landscapes of story, he is also exploring the tangible, living landscape of the present.

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Information

Publisher
Birlinn
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781780278353

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Map
  6. Author’s Note on Place-names
  7. Introduction: The Other Landscape
  8. 1 Cleaning the Cailleach’s Well
  9. 2 The Stag and the Blade
  10. 3 The Loch beneath the Loch
  11. 4 West Coast Male
  12. 5 The Bell in the Bone Cave
  13. 6 Conival
  14. 7 Bealach Horn
  15. 8 Cranstackie
  16. 9 A’ Mhòine
  17. 10 Diarmaid’s Grave
  18. 11 Welcoming the Stranger
  19. 12 Rubh’ Arisaig
  20. 13 Carlotta’s Eyrie
  21. 14 Rois-bheinn
  22. 15 The Post Road
  23. 16 Poison in the Poet’s House
  24. 17 Tigh nam Bodach
  25. 18 Campbell Generosity
  26. 19 In the Black Wood
  27. 20 On the Road to the Isles
  28. 21 Taking Quartz to the Cailleach
  29. A Note on the Stories
  30. Select Bibliography
  31. Acknowledgements