The Wilderness World of Cameron McNeish: Essays from Beyond the Black Stump

by McNeish, Cameron

• ISBN13: 9781903238301
• ISBN10: 1903238307
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc

Summary

Cameron McNeish is recognized as Britain's best-known advocate for wilderness. This book takes the reader on a journey to wild places: climbing one of North America's most dangerous volcanoes; traversing the Haute Route through France and Switzerland; following the Spanish sun in the Sierra de Aitana; learning wilderness philosophy from John Muir; and exploratory trekking in the Panch Chuli region of the Indian Himalaya.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Acknowledgements	vi
Introduction	1	(6)
Wilderness Connections	7	(16)
The holy grail of the wilderness traveller
A rare Solitude on Beinn Damh	23	(3)
Winter in Torridon
An Alaskan Vision on the Hill of St Fheargain	26	(3)
The Farragons, Perthshire
Ben A' an, Lowly but Loved	29	(4)
A Trossachs Miniature
Haute Route - Chamonix to Zermatt	33	(12)
A Wilderness Paradox
Ben Alder, A Hill Worth Raven About	45	(4)
Ben Alder, Inverness-shire
Beyond Lovely Loch a' Bhraoin	49	(3)
A walk in the Fannichs
Beyond the Cabrach	52	(4)
The eastern Highlands
Encounters of a Natural Kind	56	(12)
A celebration of order and Harmony
Bikes, Sore Bums and the Old Brae	68	(4)
Seana Bhraigh, a remote Munro
Boreraig and the Tears of the Tide	72	(4)
Coastal Walking on Skye
Cascades, Cateracts and Coombs	76	(4)
White Coomb and the Grey Mare's Tail, Borders
An Exploratory Trek in the Kumaon Himalaya	80	(9)
A journey to Panch Chuli
Coigach and the Fiddler	89	(3)
Great Hills just north of Ullapool
Contrasts of Affric	92	(4)
Carn Eighe and Mam Sodhail
Demon Voices and the Demon Drink	96	(3)
Ben Rinnes in Morayshire
Cairn Gorm - An Arena of Conflict	99	(11)
Suggested Solutions for the future
Dods of Hills on the Kingledoors Horseshoe	110	(3)
A walk in the Culter fells
Guardian of Glen Etive	113	(3)
The Buachaille Etive more, Argyll
Hills of the Dead End	116	(4)
The Kinlochleven hills
From Paradise to Columbia Crest	120	(9)
An ascent of Mount Rainier
In the Acclivities of the Mountain	129	(4)
Climbing A' Ghlas-bheinn, Kintail
In the Throne of the Mountain King	133	(4)
Beinn Eighe of Torridon
Inside and Out on the Roof of Scotland	137	(4)
An Ascent of Beinn Macdui, Cairngorms
The Way of the Prophet	141	(9)
In the footsteps of John Muir
Meall a 'Buachaille and the Kincardines	150	(4)
Smaller Neighbours of the Cairngorms
No Summit Here Just Space	154	(3)
A Walk of the Moine Mhor, Cairngorms
No Timeless Wonder in Flowerdale	157	(4)
Geological time spans in Torridon
The Heart of Scotland - A Land Redeemed	161	(10)
The Central Highlands Way
Supping from the Hill of the Quaich	171	(3)
Meall Chuaich in Badenoch
The Barren Rocks of Aden	174	(3)
The rough bounds of Knoydart
In Wilderness is the Preservation of the Mind	177	(11)
Stress relief in the wilderness
The Complex Sensuality of Beinn a'Ghlo	188	(3)
Beinn a' Ghlo, Perthshire
The Corrieyairick Forest	191	(3)
General Wade's Road From Laggan to Fort Augustus
Sun and Sierras of the South	194	(7)
Jaunts in Southern Spain
The Corryhully Horseshoe	201	(3)
Two Munros Near Glenfinnan, Lochaber
The Legacy of the Shining Levels	204	(3)
Spidean Mialach and Gleouraich, Highland
Shadows of Reality in the Ancient Stones	207	(12)
Senses and Spirit of place
The Munros of Mullardoch	219	(3)
Remote hills west of Beauly
The Strathfarrar Four	222	(3)
The four Munros of Glen Strathfarrar
The Sublimity and Blackness of Dark Lochnagar	225	(3)
Ruskinian descriptions of Lochnagar, Grampian
Land Use Lessons of Knoydart	228	(13)
Land reform in the Highlands
Bibliography	241	(2)
Index	243