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Wild Voices: Journeys Through Time in the Scottish Highlands by Mike Cawthorne
2.0
He doesn't have the same descriptive powers in writing as Tim Dee, Tim Cahill or Robert Macfarlane. The writing is very self centered despite reference to other authors. Not suitable if you know the areas or routes he takes as he doesn't describe a linear passage through them in any detail.Features of landscape or nature typically get about two lines then it is back to the conversation he has with his trekking companions. to be fair the book is probably not intending to do this. does introduce themes such as how untouched by human islands in lochans are, estate ownership or hydro schemes. but sees them only in a man vs nature or man destroys nature way instead of debating them in his own mind