The Savage Landscape with Cal Flyn
Wednesday 28 October ( 19:00 - 20:30 )
Alexandria Library , Gilmour Street, Alexandria, G83 0DA
Don't miss Cal Flyn at Alexandria Library!
It’s Green Libraries Week from October 21 to October 28 and to mark it West Dunbartonshire Libraries are holding a special event with the award-winning Cal Flyn who will be discussing her book The Savage Landscape. This book takes us into the wild – deep into dark forests, to the top of mountains and into the heart of deserts. It addresses our deep yearnings to be awed and inspired by landscapes that remain beyond our reach and examines what nature gets up to in the absence of humans.
In 10 chapters, each loosely structured around a visit to some of the world’s wildest and most invigorating landscapes, the book asks provocative questions about the nature of wilderness and how wild places might best be appreciated or preserved. In this search for wilderness, we will meet ascetics in search of theophany in the desert; lonely shepherds seeing off wolves under the stars; missionaries preaching from shacks deep in the jungle; wise lamas meditating under lofty mountain peaks.
Cal Flyn is a writer and journalist from the Highlands of Scotland. Her previous book, Islands of Abandonment was a Sunday Times bestseller, and won her the title of Young Writer of the Year in 2022, the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing, and the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.
Join Cal at Alexandria Library on the 28th of October from 7.00 pm. This event is free but ticketed.