Landlord of the Moon
David Craig: Scottish islands, 21 February 2002
Sea Room: An Island Life
by Adam Nicolson.
HarperCollins, 391 pp., £14.99, October 2001,0 00 257164 1 Show More
by Adam Nicolson.
HarperCollins, 391 pp., £14.99, October 2001,
“... bracelet is ‘as exotic as a silk dress on a cliff face, Audrey Hepburn, somehow, en route to the North Pole’. It was made in the Bronze Age, a period in which, according to Nicolson, ‘the human person is glorified and with his egotism comes his guilt. He carries remarkable weapons. He wears jewellery. His body becomes the arena of his glory.’ Nicolson ... ”