“Who owns this landscape? Has owning anything to do with love? For it and I have a love-affair, so nearly human we even have quarrels.…
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Author: William Young
Occasional scribbler, maker of journeys. Celtica; myths, maps and mountains.
This route is the result of a great many years spent hiking through South Scotland, and a great many hours poring over maps of it.…
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This post covers one of the finest trekking routes through the Southern Uplands of Scotland – and one of my personal favourites. It combines a…
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I hopped on a train heading south from Edinburgh, after work on a Friday. It’s a nice journey; the railway line traces a coastline that…
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The Southern Uplands of Scotland are not a place the mind immediately associates with such things as craggy pinnacles of rock, multi-coloured screes, and…
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I have made the print edition of “The Ghosts of the Forest” available in the United States from today, through the webshop on this website…
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I’ve spent a great deal of time writing about Northumberland recently. I’ve been working since Christmas time on a long, photo-laden post covering the…
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It started off with an email. I was invited down to Traquair for a coffee by one Robin Crichton – variously a filmmaker, author, conference…
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I made my first trip down to western Cumbria a few weeks ago, accepting the kind invitation of Steve Wharton to present at the first…
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Releasing a book into the light of day is both exciting and frightening. You spend literally years in the process of researching it, writing it…
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