Leafing through Natural Scotland Book Festival
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sat 15 — Sun 16 June 2013
To celebrate the Year of Natural Scotland, join us for a weekend of talks, demonstrations and activities exploring the themes of nature, writing and our relationship with the natural world.
Leafing through Natural Scotland Book Festival
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sat 15 — Sun 16 June 2013
To celebrate the Year of Natural Scotland, join us for a weekend of talks, demonstrations and activities exploring the themes of nature, writing and our relationship with the natural world.
Storytelling - familiar tales told in an unfamiliar way
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sat 15 June 2013
Storytelling sessions in Gaelic, Scots and English
A Bird's Eye View of Scotland's Landscapes - RCAHMS
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sat 15 June 2013
Take a flight above Scotland with the National Collection of Aerial Photography. James Crawford, author of 'Scotland's Landscapes', draws on stunning aerial imagery to explain how even our wildest landscapes are the product of thousands of years of human invention and intervention.
T C Smout on writing Scotland's woodland history
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sat 15 June 2013
Why write Scotland’s woodland history? Chris Smout explains what led him to the task and how he set about it. He shows how estate papers, old maps and the register of deeds can combine with the published writings of travellers and forestry experts to build up a picture of the past, and how the knowledge of archaeologists and ecologists can help to make sense of it.
Esther Woolfson on Urban Nature
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sat 15 June 2013
Author of recently published “Field Notes From a Hidden City”, Esther Woolfson will be giving a talk on Urban Nature. Esther will discuss the roles of different species in our cities, our attitudes towards them and ways in which we can enhance our appreciation and knowledge of even the most 'ordinary' of creatures.
Elm to Ash with Max Coleman
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sat 15 June 2013
In the 1970s elm was being burnt to control Dutch elm disease. Now in a new millenium the ash is under attack from disease. What have we learnt?
Nature Printed: Exhibition Talk by Adrian Dyer
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sun 16 June 2013
Dr. Adrian Dyer (RBGE Research Associate) presents an illustrated talk on nature printing with specific reference to the work of Henry Bradbury and others featured in the exhibition Nature Printed at Inverleith House.
Sir John Lister-Kaye
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sun 16 June 2013
Sir John will be giving a talk to end the Leafing Through Natural Scotland Book Festival. Nature writing has enjoyed a renaissance in the last 10 years and is now a thriving and widely read genre. Having studied nature writing in depth in North America and in Britain, using excerpts from his own books John Lister-Kaye will present a fascinating evocation of what nature writing really means.
Aileen Paterson: Maisie at the Botanics
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sun 16 June 2013
Maisie is back at the Botanics! Acclaimed children’s author Aileen Paterson will read from her book Maisie and the Botanic Garden Mystery