Raynor Winn

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he - can he? - set out with her on another healing walk? The Cape Wrath Trail is over two hundred miles of gruelling terrain through Scotland's remotest mountains and lochs. But the lure of the wilderness and the beguiling beauty of the awaiting glens draw them northwards. Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour and their hope is that it can work its magic again. They embark on an incredible thousand-mile journey from Scotland back to the familiar shores of the South West Coast Path. From Northumberland to the Yorkshire moors, Wales to the South West, Raynor and Moth map with each step the landscape of an island nation facing an uncertain path ahead. In Landlines, she records in luminous prose the strangers and friends, wilderness and wildlife they encounter on the way - it's a journey that begins in fear but can only end in hope.

Landlines

Rue Moonflower

Since the sixteenth century humans have changed the world beyond recognition. We've revolutionized the way we live, made breathtaking and miraculous discoveries, and yet we seem totally incapable of changing ourselves. We haven't evolved a step beyond that day in 1513, which saw so many people die. Centuries in which we could have worked together to find a way of life where no one is hungry, or without shelter, a world where we don't destroy the climate, but instead all we've done is waste precious time fighting over a line on a map. I cycle on, imagining a world without borders.

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