A Wilder Voice
Lived by Tamsin Calidas
A Wilder Voice
Words & Photography
By Tamsin Calidas
Published by Hanbury Press December 1st 2021
Cloth Hardback
Hand-stitched & hand-bound Size: 143 x 206mm
Limited Edition of 300
Price: £38
PRESS RELEASE
Nearly twenty years ago, Calidas moved from the city to a tiny Hebridean island. It precipitated a life changing journey which led to a deep immersion into nature. For over a decade, Calidas lived close to the wilds - daily immersing, irrespective of weather, storms or season, into the fierce seas, raw elements and often harsh landscape. At times of acute grief, challenge and loneliness, nature sustained her with a source of vitality and strength that never failed. Its regenerative power inspired a creative simplicity that owedinto all aspects of her existence and forged her life differently.
In this beautiful handbound, limited edition book, Hanbury Press publishes new photographs by Tamsin for the first time and, drawing words from her bestselling memoir I Am An Island, binds words together with images so vivid that you can sense the elements about you. The aim is that the experience of discovering the pages inside offers a sensory experience, and encourage readers to and a quiet space for nature in each of our busy lives.
Tamsin Calidas is a writer and photographer living in the wilds of the Scottish Hebrides. A beekeeper, keen cold water sea swimmer, and highly skilled natural medicine and alternative health practitioner, Tamsin is known for her rehabilitation and rewilding efforts, and has initiated a conservation project to reintroduce and breed rare Scottish black bees. She studied English Language and Literature at Oxford University, specialising in Jungian Psychology and Celtic, Norse and Icelandic nature folklore. Her ground-breaking non-fiction debut I Am An Island was published in 2020 to worldwide acclaim, & her second non-fiction memoir will be published in Spring 2023.
‘I Am an Island is a hymn to the wild, full of fine observation of the natural world’ The Sunday Times
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Praise for I Am An Island
‘An extraordinary book...wild and redemptive’ Olivia Laing
‘Groundbreaking - the memoir of the year’ Vogue UK
‘Completely astonishing’ Juliet Nicolson
‘Startling and vivid’ Madeline Bunting
‘Unforgettably moving’ Neil Ansell
‘Nothing short of remarkable’ Sarah Langford
‘So raw, so honest, so intense’ Sigri Sandberg
‘Glittering and visceral’ Nicola Chester