The west coast of Scotland casts a spell on anyone with a taste for
adventure, a feeling for the past or a love of the wild,
uninhabited places. With tidal currents of awesome power running
between fascinating patterns of islands, it is a challenging place
for any type of small craft. Robin Lloyd-Jones has been exploring
here in his sea kayak for more than forty years.In this enchanced
new edition of Argonauts of the Western Isles he takes us on many a
memorable epedition to wild and beautiful shores. Amongst
magnificent scenery and ever-changing seas, we are transported to
Jura, Scarba, the Garvellach Isles, Mull, Staffa, the Treshnish
Isles, the Monack Isles, Iona, Lewis and the Utis, Skye, the
Orkneys, the Shetland Isles to places with music in their names,
like Tir Nan Og the land of the ever-young, places which, once
visited, become part of you.Along the way the author tells us a
great deal about kayaking, about the wildlife and the history of
the area but, more than that, he makes us feel that we are with him
on his kayak.We experience what it is like to set out with one's
destination below the horizon and nothing but open sea ahead, to
bivouac under the stars, to spend the night aboard a wreck, to be
'hunted' by the vortex of the Corryvreckan whirlpool, to paddle
into dark, booming caves, to feel an Atlantic swell rolling beneath
the kayak and to become part of its rhythm. Through the author's
vivid descriptions we know the terror of a force nine gale, the
tranquillity of moolit trips, and the lure of tiny bays and
seal-meadows accessible only to a slim kayak. We encounter
dolphins, otters, unidentified monsters and nuclear submarines. And
when he writes of the magic of remote islands, the Robinson Crusoe
in all of us is awakened.This is a book to set the imagination
adrift, a book for those seeking wider horizons, be their vessel an
armchair or a kayak.
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