Tim Ecott is a former BBC World Service staff correspondent. He has worked widely in Africa and the Indian Ocean. He writes documentaries for radio and screen and nonfiction, drawing heavily on his fondness for the natural world. His books include Neutral Buoyancy (Penguin) and Vanilla: travels in search of the luscious substance.
The tough, mystical, intangible character of the Faroes is captured
by Ecott's gorgeously rich and descriptive writing that makes you
believe you can smell the sea, hear the birds and feel the wind. A
beautiful and evocative read.
*Kate Humble*
This is Ecott at his best. His prose is incisive and elegiac. From
the book's opening line we are there among the gannets, the pilot
whales and sea-butted cliffs, wrestling with the winds and the
enigma that is this Land of Maybe. Absorbing stuff, full of the
ancient lore and very modern predicaments that daily beset the
proud Faroese on their rocky outpost.
*Benedict Allen*
Filled with loving detail, humour and heart The Land of Maybe is a
lyrical treat. Tim Ecott has created a raven-haunted love song to
the intimate insecurity of island living and the salt-caked,
tightly-braided culture of the Faroes.
*A.L. Kennedy*
In a hot and, for many, fraught summer, these dispatches from the
wind and salt-blown islands at 62 degrees north offer delicious
escapism. A beautiful evocation of landscape and nature, it is,
above all, a portrait of a community which maintains a deep
connection with its past.
*Financial Times*
Ecott's fine book is, at root, a timely meditation on the clash
between modernity and premodernity and between settler and nomad.
It's an interrogation of the role of compassion in our moral lives
and an examination of the crucial question of what sort of
creatures we are.
*The Oldie*
I never want to leave the remote island world so atmospherically,
precisely educed between the covers of this book. Ecott's prose has
the power of tides, his perception is as searching as the Atlantic
wind, and he has the soul of a natural-born naturalist. A
masterpiece.
*John Lewis-Stemple*
Engaging and energetic
*Times Literary Supplement*
In this excellent book, Ecott's evocative telling makes me want to
go to this weird and wonderful place.
*Paul Theroux*
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