Tom Weir
an anthology
Published on 20. June 2013
304 pages
978-1-908737-29-8 (ISBN)
Description
From his early years Tom Weir MBE was set on making his way as an explorer, writer and photographer, a progress interrupted by World War Two but then leading to expeditions ranging from the Himalayas to Greenland. For over forty years his feature 'My Month’ appeared in the Scots Magazine, reflecting his fascination with Scotland, its remote corners, people and wildlife - interests that made his award-winning TV programme Weir’s Way so popular. From sources published and unpublished this collection of Tom Weir’s writing has been selected by Hamish Brown from the whole body of his life’s work. One of Hamish Brown’s teenage inspirations was Tom Weir’s Highland Days and, later, he was lucky to know and sometimes work with Tom. As a much-travelled author, lecturer and photographer himself, Hamish was delighted to put together this selection of Tom’s work.
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- I LIFE TO WARTIME YEARS
- NINE YEARS TO HAPPINESS
- TOUGH JOINT
- AN EPIC
- INSPECTION
- ZERO HOUR
- II THE HIMALAYA
- FIRST REACH KATMANDU
- THE TESI LAPCHA
- UJA TIRCHE
- ENDINGS
- III HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS
- ACROSS SUTHERLAND HILLS
- EILEAN NAN RON: A VERY FERTILE PLACE
- ERISKAY
- CONTRASTING ORKNEY ISLANDS
- IV DESERT MOUNTAINS AND ARCTIC PEAKS
- MOROCCO 1955
- PEAKS AND PASSES IN KURDISTAN
- GREENLAND: IN SCORESBY LAND
- V CLIMBING DAYS IN SCOTLAND
- THIRSTY WORK IN THE CUILLIN
- THE BIG BEN
- A CAMP ON RUM
- AVALANCHE
- CROSSING THE CAIRNGORMS BY SKI
- VI NORWAY TO CORSICA
- NORTHLAND MOUNTAINEERING
- TO THE ALPS
- THE ALPS ON SKI
- THE JULIAN ALPS
- CORSICA
- VII A VARIETY OF INTERESTS
- THE TROSSACHS
- 150 YEARS OF THE CALEDONIAN CANAL (1972)
- LARGO REMEMBERS SELKIRK
- THE RAILWAY WINDING NORTH
- VIII TOM'S PEOPLE
- REMEMBERING TOM PATEY
- TWO LUCKY PEOPLE
- TRAMP-ROYAL
- SETON GORDON - MAN OF NATURE
- SAILING WITH THE CAPTAIN SCOTT
- RETURN TO 1912
- IX ALWAYS A NATURALIST
- NE'ERDAY
- THE GANNET CITY OF THE FORTH
- Solan Goose
- ENCOUNTERS
- DAWN DANCERS
- ANIMALS AT HOME
- A GLEN LYON CAPER
- SNOW BUNTINGS
- A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SORTS
