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Men and Beasts
Valerie Gillies
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Description for Men and Beasts
Paperback. Come and meet some wild men and tame beasts. Explore the fleeting moment and capture the passing of time in these portrait studies which document a year's journey. Num Pages: 141 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; AJC; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 402.
Come and meet some wild men and tame beasts. Explore the fleeting moment and capture the passing of time in these portrait studies which document a year's journey. Travel across Scotland with poet Valerie Gillies and photographer Rebecca Marr: share their passion for a land where wild men can sometimes be tamed and tame beasts can get really wild. Among the wild men they find are a gunner in Edinburgh Castle, a Highland shepherd, a ferryman on the River Almond, an eel fisher on Loch Ness, a Borders fencer, and a beekeeper on a Lowland estate. The beasts portrayed in ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
141
Condition
New
Number of Pages
141
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780946487929
SKU
V9780946487929
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-2
About Valerie Gillies
Valerie Gillies is an award-winning poet with seven books to her name. Best known as the river poet who followed the Tweed and the Tay from sourse to sea, she has held writing fellowships at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, in East Loathian and Midlothian, and at the University of Edinburgh. Her poetry has been published internationally and ... Read more
Reviews for Men and Beasts
Goin aroon the Borders wi Valerie an' Rebecca did my reputation the world o good. It's no often they see us wi beautiful talented women, ye ken. WALTER ELLIOT, fencer and historian These poems are rooted in the elemental world. - ROBERT NYE, reviewing The Chanter's Tune in The Times ... Read more