INTRODUCING THE AUTHOR
Jamie Whittle is an environmental lawyer and ski instructor who lives near Forres in the North of Scotland.
He was a Morehead Scholar to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA where he earned a BA in Modern Languages with Honours. Returning to Scotland to study Law at the University of Edinburgh, he also completed an MSc with Distinction in Human Ecology at The Centre for Human Ecology.
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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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INTRODUCING JAMIE WHITTLE
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.
Still a young man, Jamie Whittle has already quartered the globe and packed in the experience of two lifetimes. In conversation he is relaxed, even laconic, and a centre of calm. He gives the impression of a man who, having grown larger in his mind, sees further ahead as he grows, and indeed he is all of these things.
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WHITE RIVER LAUNCH EVENTS
SATURDAY 1ST TO SATURDAY 15TH DECEMBER
Some pictures from the White River launches.
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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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