In a Time of Distance, and Other Poems by Alexander McCall Smith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Dedication In a Time of Distance

A Washing Line Outside a Croft House Taste and Memory In a Time of Distance

Journeys

Our Journeys The Train Arriving at Platform Two Adelstrop Revisited The Language of Pilots College of Hypnotherapy, Next Right Quality Provisions for Ever Not Rus in Urbe but Suburbia in Rure A Typology of Angels Household Gods Holy River Mustard Field, Rajasthan Feel Glorious Do Not Lean Again Ne Pas

A Scottish Four Seasons

Spring Summer Autumn Winter

Interlude: Seven Sonnets

I. Sixty Talks to Eighteen II. Eighteen Replies to Sixty III. Forty Intervenes, Remembers Horace IV. Adventure and Uncertainty V. It Takes a Village to Raise a Child VI. King James VI of Scotland Reflects on the Loss of His Only Friend When Young VII. Love Unforgotten

Of the Animals

Primate Cousins The Gentleness of Whales Elephants Kangaroos The Dung Beetle Tortoise Cheetah Polar Bear Crocodile Lion Small, Insignificant Antelope Giraffe, Zebra Our World, Their World

Of Love & Longing

Love over Scotland On Clouds over Mull: A Love Song Nocturnal Blessing Love Lost On Looking at a Child

Of Books & Reading

The Goodness of Books II. Moveable Type III. What the Book Is IV. On the Bedside Table Remembering Muriel Spark Graham Greene A Maker of Beautiful Books Library of Congress

Places

Greece Goodbye to the Ionian Scotland Dear One Scotland’s Claim Edinburgh A Fragile Beauty The Seven Hills of Edinburgh Craiglockhart Hill, a Century Ago Arthur’s Seat and Geology Imagined Conversation on Blackford Hill Corstorphine Hill On Calton Hill Braid Hills

Unrelated Poems

Northland Wolves The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg From a Mumbai Hotel Fish, and the Thoughts of Fish Saving an Oak Tree Friendship

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