Clay tablets of cuneiform script from ancient Babylonian libraries or slabs of three thousand year old peat each have their strata of stories to tell us.
Author: robinacrawford
Robin Crawford is an author and illustrator, with a particular interest in the culture and natural heritage of Scotland. His first book, ‘Into the Peatlands: A Journey Through the Moorland Year’, was published in 2018 and longlisted for the Highland Book Prize. ‘Cauld Blasts and Clishmaclavers’ (2020) is a treasury of Scottish Words. His third book ‘The Sound of Many Waters, A Jjourney along the River Tay’ is published in June 2023 by Birlinn. He lives in Auchtermuchty, in Fife.
Join me on a journey #IntoThePeatlands @falklandestate Tuesday 13th November, 7:00pm. @BirlinnBooks
Join me on a journey #IntoThePeatlands @falklandestate Tuesday 13th November, 7:00pm. @BirlinnBooks
Supernatural moor
Supernatural moor 
“ …Plenty herring, plenty meal,/Plenty peat to fill her creel…”
“ …Plenty herring, plenty meal,/Plenty peat to fill her creel…” 
Moth
Moth.
Rannoch Brindled Beauty moth from #IntoThePeatlands @BirlinnBooks
Rannoch Brindled Beauty moth from #IntoThePeatlands @BirlinnBooks.
at ‘The Enchanted Forest’ Pitlochry
Met this tree spirit last night at ‘The Enchanted Forest’ Pitlochry.
I counted fifteen curlews…
A traditional peatland song goes- “…the nest of the curlew/ is in the bubbling peat-moss…” 200 years after this Fife moss had been drained I counted fifteen curlews in its peat brown field this afternoon.
Big black kettle
‘Big Black Kettle’
Unique, signed and wrapped 1st edition of ‘Into The Peatlands’.
Big Black Kettle
Big Black Kettle, Peat cutter’s spades
Price on request.
Venturing into the peatlands Macbeth encounters the witches. Unique wrapped signed copies of ‘Into The Peatlands’
Venturing into the peatlands Macbeth encounters the witches. Unique wrapped signed copies of ‘Into The Peatlands’.
MacBeth’s Witches Moor
MacBeth’s Witches Cauldron
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