About the Book:

A year in the life of an old salt who sailed the world and came home to a different place, my memories and me exploring nature and history together in the wooded valley where I have settled as a solitary-practising hedge druid.

I wrote this book for myself, obviously, and for readers who like me are:
– seekers of spiritual communion with nature, who might follow a religion, or more than one religion, or no religion at all;
– survivors of childhood sexual abuse;
– people who live with chronic illness and pain; and/or
– those interested in prehistory, archaeology, oral traditions, documented social history, genealogy, and ancestors of blood, of place, and of tradition.

While writing this memoir in the form of a personal nature journal over twelve months, I remembered myself as a boy who loved the wild land I lived upon, who, through tragedy and trauma, lost that part of myself. Settling as an old man, somewhere with a remarkably similar landscape history to that of my birthplace, I’ve found the boy again. And a lifetime later, he is helping me to become whole.

About the Author:

David Bridger settled in England’s West Country after twenty years of ocean-based mischief, during which he worked as a lifeguard, a sailor, an intelligence gatherer and an investigator. Then he got hurt, came home a bit physically broken, and for good measure caught a severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) virus in a military hospital. Now he writes science fiction and fantasy novels. Sometimes they’re informed by his experiences out on the crinkly blue. He writes what he loves for... Read More

Other Publications by David Bridger:

• Wild Times
• David Bridger's Science Fiction & Fantasy Collection
• Space Train
• Damage Control
• Gifted
• A Flight of Thieves
• The Honesty of Tigers
• Quiet Resistance
• Storywalker