Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie
Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie
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Sightlines
A Conversation with the Natural World

Author: Kathleen Jamie

Narrator: Ruth Urquhart

Unabridged: 5 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/18/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature

Synopsis

In Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field—from her native Scottish "byways and hills" to the frigid Arctic in fourteen enthralling essays. She dissects whatever her gaze falls upon—vistas of cells beneath a hospital microscope, orcas rounding a headland, the aurora borealis lighting up the frozen sea. In so doing, she questions what, exactly, constitutes "nature," and upends the idea that it is always picturesque. Written with precision, subtlety, and wry humor, Sightlines urges the listener: "Keep looking, even when there's nothing much to see."

About Kathleen Jamie

Kathleen Jamie, one of the U.K.'s foremost poets, is the author of several books of poetry and nonfiction titles, including Sightlines. Her many awards and honors include the 2017 Royal Geographic Society Ness Award, conferred upon Jamie "for outstanding creative writing at the confluence of travel, nature and culture"; the 2013 Costa Book Award; as well as numerous prestigious poetry awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award, Forward Poetry Prize of the Year, and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award. The Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Stirling, she lives with her family in Fife, Scotland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bridget on May 21, 2012

This is a delicate and beautiful book. The cover calls it essays, but that suggests a kind of formality that would be out of place. The rigour here is of a much more reflective and questioning kind. Its creative non-fiction, to incisive for a namby-pamby word like "reflection", too poetic and beauti......more

Goodreads review by Penny on June 01, 2016

A beautiful writer. I honestly think Jamie could write about a visit to the dentist and make it sound lyrical. To call these chapters 'essays' seems wrong, they are more like meditations on a variety of subjects, mainly the natural world. I love the way her mind works. She sees something and it trigg......more

Goodreads review by Jason on June 12, 2018

Wonderful writing, never have I been as jealous of an author as I am right now, the things Kathleen Jamie has done and the places she has been as part of the research for this book is stunning. Visiting remote abandoned islands in the Hebrides, St Kilda and Rona, to sitting inside a whale skeleton i......more

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