"Scotland" . . "Scotland." . "Arctic regions" . . "Arctic Regions." . "Arktis." . . "LITERARY COLLECTIONS Essays." . . . . "TRAVEL Europe General." . . "Essays." . . . . . . . . . "Sightlines : a conversation with the natural world" . . . . . . . . "\"A sorceress of the essay form.\" John BergerFive years after Findings broke the mould of nature writing, Kathleen Jamie subtly shifts our focus on landscape and the living world, daring us to look again at the 'natural', the remote and the human-made. She offers us the closest of perspectives and the most distant, too: from vistas of cells beneath a hospital microscope, or the pores of a whale's jawbone under restoration, to satellites rising over a Scottish island, or the aurora borealis lighting up an iceberg-strewn sea. We encounter killer whales circling below cliffs, noisy colonies of br."@en . . . . . . . . "Sightlines" . "Sightlines"@en . . . "When the day ended with time for questions, I had some turning in my head ... About 'nature, ' mostly, which we were exhorted to reconnect with. What was it, exactly, and where did it reside? With her poet's eye and naturalist's affinity for wild places, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field in this enthralling collection of fourteen essays whose power derives from the stubborn attention she pays to everything around her. Jamie roams her native Scottish \"byways and hills\" and sails north to encounter whalebones and icebergs. Interweaving personal history with her scrutiny of landscape, Jamie dissects whatever her gaze falls upon--from vistas of cells beneath a hospital microscope, to orcas rounding a headland, to the aurora borealis lighting up the frozen sea. Written with precision, subtlety, and wry humor, Sightlines urges us to \"Keep looking. Keep looking, even when there's nothing much to see.\""@en . . . "Sightlines a conversation with the natural world" . "Sightlines a conversation with the natural world"@en . . . . "With a poet's eye and naturalist's affinity for wild places, Jamie reports from the field in this collection of essays. Jamie roams her native Scottish \"byways and hills\" and sails north to encounter whalebones and icebergs. She dissects whatever her gaze falls upon: from vistas of cells beneath a hospital microscope, to orcas rounding a headland, to the aurora borealis lighting up the frozen sea." . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . "Scotland / Description and travel." . . "Natural history / Arctic regions." . . "Natural history Arctic regions." . "Écosse (GB)" . . "Arctic regions / Description and travel." . . "TRAVEL Europe Great Britain." . .