Title Page
Dedication
Foreword by Robert Macfarlane
PROLOGUE
The Green Evenings
Secret Hills
SPRING
Orkney
Northern Waters
Spar Boxes, Northern England
SUMMER
Summer in the North
The Rich Boys of Bygdøy and other fragments of a summer
A Northward Journey and a Summer Storm
HARVEST
Bringing Home a Portrait by Cosmo Alexander
Painting Northern Scotland
The Food of the North (with Jane Stevenson)
THE BACK END OF THE YEAR
Visits in Autumn
A Letter from Copenhagen
The Grim Consolations of the North
The Aesthetics of Remoteness and the North
WINTER
Winter in the North
EPILOGUE
The Snow over Madrid
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by Peter Davidson from Carcanet
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