| Description |
viii, 150 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
A washing line outside the Croft house -- Taste and memory -- In a time of distance -- Our journeys -- The train arriving at platform two -- Adelstop revisited -- The language of pilots -- College of hypnotherapy, next right -- Quality provisions for ever -- Not Rus in Urbe but Suburbia in Rure -- A typology of angels -- Household gods -- Holy river -- Mustard field, Rajasthan -- Feel glorious -- Do not lean again -- Nes pas -- Spring -- Summer -- Autumn -- Winter -- Sixty talks to eighteen -- Eighteen replies to sixty -- Forty intervenes, remembers Horace -- Adventure and uncertainty -- It takes a village to raise a child -- King James VI of Scotland refelects on the loss of his only friend when young -- Love unforgotten -- Primate cousins -- The gentleness of whales -- Elphants -- Kangaroos -- The dung beetle -- Tortise -- Cheetah -- Polar bear -- Crocodile -- Lion -- Small, insignificant antelope -- Giraffe, zebra -- Our world their world -- Love over Scotland -- On clouds over mull: a love song -- Nocturnal blessing -- Love lost -- On looking at a child -- The goodness of books -- The book becomes -- Moveable type -- What the book is -- On the bedside table -- Remebering Muriel Spark -- Graham Greene -- A maker of beautiful books -- Library of congress -- Greece -- The oracle at Delphi -- Goodbye to the Ionian -- Scotland -- St. Kilda -- Dear one -- Scoland's claim -- Edinburgh -- A fragile beauty -- The seven hills of Edinburgh -- The castle rock Craiglockhart Hill, a century ago -- Arthur's seat and geology -- Imagaine conversations on Blackford Hill -- Corstorphine Hill -- On Calton Hill -- Braid Hills -- Northland -- Wolves -- The Canadian museum for human rights in Winnipeg -- From a Mumbai hotel -- Fish, and the thoughts of fish -- Saving and oak tree -- Friendship. |
| Summary |
"In these delightful poems, Alexander McCall Smith writes about his travels, from Africa to Greece, London to Dubai, and back home to Scotland. He shares his gentle, inimitably McCall Smith-esque observations on life, love, and beauty, reminding us how deeply satisfying it can be to take in the world around us with all our senses, and with all our mind and heart"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- -- Travel -- Poetry.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| Added Author |
McIntosh, Iain, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9780593315989 (hardcover) |
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