Ruth Calder

Writes a weekly letter about walking the Scottish coast

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Thirty Headlands

Essays from a year of walking, one headland every fortnight. Out now in paperback.

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I was a ship's navigator for twenty years before I started walking the coast instead of sailing past it. Letters go out on Sunday mornings.

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