Between Carterhaugh and Tamshiel Rig: A Borderline Episode
Iain Biggs
Wild Conversations Press
This book is about two places, one real and one imaginary. Tamshiel Rig (a late Bronze Age site above the Carter Burn in the Scottish parish of Southdean) is a real site that is rapidly disappearing due to over-planting by the Forestry Commission. Carterhaugh, the place at the heart of the old song Tam Lin, is fictional but continues to survive in the song. The book uses a biographical narrative – interspersed with historical, ethnographic, archaeological and other forms of ‘scholarly’ material – to explore the relationship between places, imagination, memory and music. Two of the eighteen chapters consist entirely of images and the book also includes a number of altered maps, photographs of the area and small drawings.

Edition of 500, 2004, Bristol, UK
20 x 20 x 1.5 cms, offset litho
wildconversationspress@isophia.co.uk

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