INTRODUCING THE AUTHOR

Jamie Whittle is an environmental lawyer and ski instructor who lives near Forres in the North of Scotland. 

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INTRODUCING THE ARTIST

Jo Darling is a painter of landscapes and still life, and a printmaker. Without formal art school training, she studied for seven years with New York artist Randy Klinger at the Moray Art Studio on Findhorn Bay, drawing, discussing aesthetics and refining perception.

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FOREWORD TO WHITE RIVER

Foreword author Alastair McIntosh is professor of Human Ecology at the University of Strathclyde.  He author of Soil and Soul and two volumes of poetry.

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WHITE RIVER LAUNCH EVENTS

Photographs from the White River launch events.

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DOWNLOAD WHITE RIVER POSTER

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EXTRACTS: BEGINNING, MIDDLE, CONTINUING

It’s going to take four to five days to walk the length of the River Findhorn from the coast to the mountains. I could have dropped into the source from the back of Newtonmore in upper Speyside and walked downstream. Instead I’ve chosen to walk upstream and canoe back down which feels more natural and complete. There will be sections, too, where what paths along the river that exist run out, or take detours away from the river bank. The return journey by canoe will allow me to gain as full a sense of the river as possible.

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MEDIA & REVIEWS

The links below go to press, radio and internet notice that has already been given to Jamie Whittle.

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ROBERT MCFARLANE'S ENDORSEMENT

Robert Macfarlane, author of the phenomenally successful Mountains of the Mind, had this to say about White River.

‘White River is a passionate and astute piece of work.

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A FOUND POEM

While working on an early draft of White River, Jamie Whittle’s editor came across the handwritten lines reproduced below, placed on the title page by Jamie to steady himself as he embarked on the task of filling out and deepening his text. 

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DR RICHARD SHELTON, RESEARCH DIRECTOR, ATLANTIC SALMON TRUST

WRITING IN THE ATLANTIC SALMON TRUST JOURNAL

Strip away the family estate tweeds and put the Purdeys back in their oak and leather case and even the most civilised of us are genetically little different from the spear-waving cave painters of Lascaux. Nowadays of course, for all to much of our time, work has to stand in for the life of the hunter for which our Cro-Magnon brains are programmed.

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