The Economist

Tom Crispin said:

In an book review on Friday, focussing on the wilderness of the
Scottish Highlands, the Economist print edition published a photo of
what looks remarkably like Snowdon.

Yes, across Llynnau Mymbyr. We used to have our club hut at the head of the
lakes.
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Tom Crispin said:

In an book review on Friday, focussing on the wilderness of the
Scottish Highlands, the Economist print edition published a photo of
what looks remarkably like Snowdon.

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And a scan of part of the print edition article, including photo,
here.

www.johnballcycling.org.uk/photos/eco

And here's one of my photos of Snowdon.

www.johnballcycling.org.uk/photos/p3010041

I think they are being economical with the truth :-)
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In an book review on Friday, focussing on the wilderness of the
Scottish Highlands, the Economist print edition published a photo of
what looks remarkably like Snowdon.

The book review can be seen here.

www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9828753

And a scan of part of the print edition article, including photo,
here.

www.johnballcycling.org.uk/photos/eco

The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane.

It was the book of the week read on Radio 4 a couple of weeks back. I heard
the first programme which was very good. it described a walk in to Coruisk
Hut and then out to Sligachan.

I did find his previous book, Mountains of the Mind, a bit hard going in
places, but the fact that I was reading it during a long flight probably
didn't help.

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focussing on the wilderness of the

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Scottish Highlands

say you, but the Economist review that you cite starts: "LIKE a medieval
holy man, or modern hippie, Robert Macfarlane sets out for the remote
parts of the northern and western British isles, sea-sprayed islands,
craggy mountains and great bog plains. He wants to experience wildness."

While I'd guess that the photograph used by the newspaper is a so-called
"library photo", I think that Snowdon although not part of the northern
British Isles, is, in GB terms, a Western part,

so, I'd award you a small prize for mountain recognition, but acquit the
Economist (my copy didn't arrive in the Highlands yesterday) of
dishonesty, or, really, of inaccuracy either.

I would take issue, however, over the reference to Schiehallion -
Maskelyne wasn't "an eighteenth century map-maker" - he was the
Astronomer Royal, but his sidekick, apparently, dreamed up the idea of
contour lines there, according to an interesting bird I met on the
unfashionable route up from the West, on one of the few fine days of
this summer!

Richard

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Tom Crispin said:

In an book review on Friday, focussing on the wilderness of the
Scottish Highlands, the Economist print edition published a photo of
what looks remarkably like Snowdon.

Quoted message said:

And a scan of part of the print edition article, including photo,
here.

www.johnballcycling.org.uk/photos/eco

And here's one of my photos of Snowdon.

www.johnballcycling.org.uk/photos/p3010041

I think they are being economical with the truth :-)

Economical with the petrol cost of travelling to Scotland for the photo
too :-)
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Bill Grey

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While I'd guess that the photograph used by the newspaper is a so-called
"library photo", I think that Snowdon although not part of the northern
British Isles, is, in GB terms, a Western part,

What ? Snowdon remote ??? Western yes but remote, never !
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Bill Grey

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The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane.

It was the book of the week read on Radio 4 a couple of weeks back. I heard
the first programme which was very good. it described a walk in to Coruisk
Hut and then out to Sligachan.

I enjoyed that, but discovered it too late to recommend it here.

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I did find his previous book, Mountains of the Mind, a bit hard going in
places, but the fact that I was reading it during a long flight probably
didn't help.

Sometimes it is more enjoyable to hear a book read by it's author.

Two examples I enjoyed as talking books were "Cider With Rosie",
expressivley read read by Laurie Lee, and "Lake Woebegon Days", by
Garrison Keillor.

I bought the latter after hearing him reciting extracts from it, but was
unable to conjure up the "small-town America" atmosphere which his voice
portrayed. ;-)
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Tom Crispin said:

In an book review on Friday, focussing on the wilderness of the
Scottish Highlands, the Economist print edition published a photo of
what looks remarkably like Snowdon.

The book review can be seen here.

www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9828753

And a scan of part of the print edition article, including photo,
here.

www.johnballcycling.org.uk/photos/eco

And here's one of my photos of Snowdon.

www.johnballcycling.org.uk/photos/p3010041

A letter to the editor.

Any suggestions before I send it off?

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Sir,

I found your choice of photo to illustrate your book review of Wild
Places by Robert Macfarlane curious. Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) is the only
mountain in the United Kingdom to have a railway all the way to the
top; it boasts a £9m restaurant and retail complex development on the
summit, and 500,000 visitors make the ascent, either by train or on
foot, every year. Indeed, Yr Wyddfa is probably the least wild of the
mountains of the British Isles.

Tom Crispin,
London