{"product_id":"poachers-pilgrimage-paperback","title":"Poacher's Pilgrimage - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlastair McIntosh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBrian D. McLaren\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe islands of the Outer Hebrides are home to some of the most remote and spectacular scenery in the world. They host an astonishing range of mysterious structures - stone circles, beehive dwellings, holy wells and 'temples' from the Celtic era. Over a twelve-day pilgrimage, often in appalling conditions, Alastair McIntosh returns to the islands of his childhood and explores the meaning of these places. Traversing moors and mountains, struggling through torrential rivers, he walks from the most southerly tip of Harris to the northerly Butt of Lewis. The book is a walk through space and time, across a physical landscape and into a spiritual one. As he battled with his own ability to endure some of the toughest terrain in Britain, he met with the healing power of the land and its communities. This is a moving book, a powerful reflection not simply of this extraordinary place and its people met along the way, but of imaginative hope for humankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlastair McIntosh (b. 1955) is a Scottish writer, broadcaster and activist on social, environmental and spiritual issues, raised on the Isle of Lewis. A Fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology, a former Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Divinity (New College) at Edinburgh University, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the College of Social Sciences at Glasgow University, he holds a BSc from the University of Aberdeen, an MBA from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in liberation theology and land reform from the University of Ulster. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e His books include \u003ci\u003eHell \u0026amp; High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition\u003c\/i\u003e on the cultural and spiritual dimensions of climate change, \u003ci\u003eRekindling Community\u003c\/i\u003e on the spiritual basis of inter-relationship, and \u003ci\u003eSoil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power\u003c\/i\u003e on land reform and environmental protection--the latter described as \"world changing\" by George Monbiot, \"life changing\" by the Bishop of Liverpool and \"truly mental\" by Thom Yorke of Radiohead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 470\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48253369680120,"sku":"9781532634451","price":47.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/Yl63ZwVhRb9781532634451.webp?v=1783766887","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/poachers-pilgrimage-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}