Among the Summer Snows: In Search of Scotland's Last Snows - Softcover

Nicholson, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191046385X ISBN 13: 9781910463857

Publisher: September Publishing (UK), 2018

Synopsis

After a summer searching for the last snows in the Scottish Highlands, this is acclaimed novelist Christopher Nicholson’s beautiful and moving exploration of mountains, time and loss.

Among the Summer Snows is a profound meditation on nature and mortality, in which the survival of the old snow connects with the author’s personal experiences of loss and joy. Christopher Nicholson’s lifelong fascination with snow is made urgent as he hunts for Britain’s last remaining snow-beds during one of the warmest Augusts ever recorded.

Christopher Nicholson’s first piece of nature writing – following three critically-acclaimed novels – is 'the kind of beautiful writing that transcends form' (Paul Evans). 'Beautifully produced by an independent publisher' (Michael Kerr), Among the Summer Snows is an exquisite offering of prose and photography that is gathering shortlist prize attention, literary plaudits and word-of-mouth travels.

Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature

Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Nicholson is the author of three novels, including The Elephant Keeper, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and Encore Prize, and Winter, described by Alison Lurie in the New York Review of Books as 'one of the most dramatically convincing and moving Famous Writer Novels I have ever read.' He has lived near Shaftesbury in Dorset for the past thirty years.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Here the crystals gleam and glitter, shadow-bathing, hanging on to their essentail selves. Some collections of snow are small cahces of melting crystals, but others are as big as football pitches. It is their depth that really astounds.'

About this edition

• Publisher: September Publishing (UK)
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 191046385X
• ISBN 13: 9781910463857
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172