The Lightning Thread

As we move from the Highland waters of his childhood and into his adult travels from the Arctic Circle to the South Seas, 'The Lightning Thread' unpeels this idiosyncratic subject, and shows how it embraces folklore, poetry, magic, drink, and disaster. By turns a lyrical celebration of the natural world and also the quirkiness of human nature itself, this is a hymn to the great happiness that pursuing his life's passion has brought the author.