The Pinnacle

<p class=ql-align-justify>This book contains six short fictional stories all relating to a single river. The stories are not interconnected: rather the river is interconnected. Each story investigates a different dimension of human experience with wild places.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Between each fictional story is a small 'vignette' a personal anecdote of experiences I have had with rivers.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Back cover blurb:</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When something in nature is lost no two people respond in exactly the same way.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A threatened woodland stream haunts the dreams and waking life of a person not normally accustomed to spending time in wild places. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An ancient tree patiently sifts the wind for linguistic evidence of humanity's ecological awareness.</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A white trout eludes all human effort to locate define and protect it.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A dying woman attains through her art a connection to nature bordering on omnipresence.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this collection of immersive short stories the reader is invited to inhabit- and become aligned within- the moral landscape of ecological loss: and to reflect upon the limits of what is endurable and acceptable for the wild places important to them.</span></p><p></p>