This is an account of the author's travels around the world--in Africa, America, Australia, and Europe--to discover the significance of great cliffs and outcrops, to see at first hand how people have lived in their shadows or on their faces and summits.
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About the Author:
David Craig was born in Aberdeen in 1932. He now lives in Cumbria with the writer Anne Spillard and teaches creative writing at Lancaster University. He is the author of several volumes of poetry and fiction, as well as a book about rock-climbing, Native Stones, which was runner-up for the Boardman Tasker Award. His most recent book, On The Crofters' Trail, about the Highland Clearances, received critical acclaim.
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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0712673202
- ISBN 13 9780712673204
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336