num_pages: 190
description: It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary writer. Whether she is following the call of a peregrine in the hills above her home in Fife, sailing into a dark winter solstice on the Orkney islands, or pacing around the carcass of a whale on a rain-swept Hebridean beach, she creates a subtle and modern narrative, peculiarly alive to her connections and surroundings.
language: English
title: Findings
titlecomplete: Findings
genres: Outdoors, Nature, Poetry, Natural History, Scotland, Nonfiction, Memoir, Essays, Travel, Walking
ratings_count: 1534
places: Scotland, Orkney, Scotland, Fife, Scotland
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize
publisher: Sort Of Books