A traveller, environmental lawyer and poet, the author returns to his origins by the River Findhorn in Highland Scotland to make the journey from its mouth to its source on foot, and to return again by canoe. He offers lyricism that speaks of energy, dangers, wild places, of bounty taken from hard landscapes, of beauty and risk.

The new wanderers have at their feet an access to the world's wild places and manifold cultures such as no previous generation has known. A unity is in development that calls for a new approach and appreciation. Onto this ground steps Jamie Whittle, traveller, environmental lawyer and poet. In this his first, great, book he returns to his origins by the River Findhorn in Highland Scotland to make the journey from its mouth to its source on foot, and to return again by canoe. It is familiar ground to Jamie, but made new after his many travels about the world. From the interaction of traveller and river there arises a new lyricism that speaks of energy, dangers, wild places, of bounty taken from hard landscapes, of beauty and risk.

CONTENTS Acknowledgements Map of the Watershed Foreword by Alastair McIntosh Introduction 1. The White Shore 2. Into the Forests 3. The Salmon 4. Leven's Gorge 5. Wolves of the Dava Moor 6. Stags of Strathdearn 7. The Grey Mountains 8. Down through the Streens 9. Into the Dragon's Teeth 10. The Sands of Time Epilogue: Windy Bay, Haida Gwaii Notes