Distance and Memory

This is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far north of Scotland. It is a book grounded in the singularity of one place - a house in northern Aberdeenshire - and threaded through with an unshowy c...

Peter Davidson is a professor of Renaissance studies at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of The Idea of North, The Palace of Oblivion, and The Universal Baroque; the editor of Poetry and Revolution and The Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe ; and a coeditor of The Collecte...