Landmarks: An Exploration of Great Rocks - Softcover

Craig, David

9780712673204: Landmarks: An Exploration of Great Rocks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712673202 ISBN 13: 9780712673204

Publisher: Random House UK, 1996

This is an account of the author's travels around the world—in Africa, America, Australia, and Europe—to discover the significance of great cliffs and outcrops, to see at first hand how people have lived in their shadows or on their faces and summits.

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About the Author:

David Craig was born in Aberdeen in 1932. He now lives in Cumbria with the writer Anne Spillard and teaches creative writing at Lancaster University. He is the author of several volumes of poetry and fiction, as well as a book about rock-climbing, Native Stones, which was runner-up for the Boardman Tasker Award. His most recent book, On The Crofters' Trail, about the Highland Clearances, received critical acclaim.

From Library Journal:

Poet Craig (writing, Lancaster Univ., England) has written previously on rock climbing (Tales from the Steep, LJ 3/15/93). Here, he describes his travels around the world visiting rock faces, significant outcrops, spires, and cliffs. He is fascinated by how their natural features are perceived by humans as sacred or profane and how humans live with them, in their shadow, or on them. He describes his climbs as well. Craig has organized his work in sections?North America (the desert states), Australia, the Strait of Gibraltar, Africa below the Equator, Eastern Mediterranean, Machu Picchu, and the British Isles. He offers some nice description of the features of each landmark (e.g., Window Rock, New Mexico; Wave Rock, Hyden, Australia; Sybil's Rock, Delphi, Greece), as well as interesting stories about people he met on his travels. His work is valuable for collections in geology, rock climbing, sociology, and indigenous peoples. Recommended for all libraries.?Thomas K. Fry, Univ. of Denver
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