Talk

James Crawford

Nairn Community & Arts Centre,
8 Sep – 8 Sep

James Crawford - Wild History  -  Journeys into Lost Scotland

You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past. Perhaps they are marked by a tiny symbol on your map, perhaps not. There are no plaques to explain their fading presence before you, nothing to account for what they once were – who made them, lived in them or abandoned them. Now they are merged with the landscape. They are being reclaimed by nature. They are wild history. 
In his book Wild History - Journeys into Lost Scotland acclaimed author and presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the Sky James Crawford introduces many such places all over the country, from the ruins of prehistoric forts and ancient, arcane burial sites, to abandoned bothies and boathouses, and the derelict traces of old, faded industry.

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