Callanish
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
At the edge of the world, where ancient standing stones rise from a wind-lashed Scottish isle, a lone golden eagle named Creggan is destined for a journey that will test the very limits of courage, loyalty, and survival. William Horwood's Callanish chronicles the epic odyssey of a great eagle, crippled and cast out, who must find his way back to the mythic stones of Callanish — a sacred place of healing and belonging — guided by the bonds of an extraordinary friendship with a young female eagle named Sleat. Rich with the raw grandeur of the Scottish Highlands and the Outer Hebrides, the novel is suffused with Horwood's trademark reverence for the natural world, presenting landscapes that pulse with primal energy and spiritual weight. Much as Duncton Wood — the beloved classic that established Horwood as a master of animal-centred epic fiction — illuminated the hidden depths of the natural world through the lens of myth and moral struggle, Callanish carries the same hallmarks: soaring prose, unflinching emotional honesty, and a profound meditation on freedom, identity, and the will to endure. Horwood's animals are never mere creatures; they are vessels for the full spectrum of the human condition, rendered with a dignity that lingers long after the final page. For readers who believe that the greatest journeys are also the most inward, Callanish beckons like a distant call on the wind.
Author: William Horwood
Format: Hardback
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
At the edge of the world, where ancient standing stones rise from a wind-lashed Scottish isle, a lone golden eagle named Creggan is destined for a journey that will test the very limits of courage, loyalty, and survival. William Horwood's Callanish chronicles the epic odyssey of a great eagle, crippled and cast out, who must find his way back to the mythic stones of Callanish — a sacred place of healing and belonging — guided by the bonds of an extraordinary friendship with a young female eagle named Sleat. Rich with the raw grandeur of the Scottish Highlands and the Outer Hebrides, the novel is suffused with Horwood's trademark reverence for the natural world, presenting landscapes that pulse with primal energy and spiritual weight. Much as Duncton Wood — the beloved classic that established Horwood as a master of animal-centred epic fiction — illuminated the hidden depths of the natural world through the lens of myth and moral struggle, Callanish carries the same hallmarks: soaring prose, unflinching emotional honesty, and a profound meditation on freedom, identity, and the will to endure. Horwood's animals are never mere creatures; they are vessels for the full spectrum of the human condition, rendered with a dignity that lingers long after the final page. For readers who believe that the greatest journeys are also the most inward, Callanish beckons like a distant call on the wind.