freedom of expression, 1, 2
Freire, Paolo, 1
French Resistance, 1
French Revolution, 1
Freud, Sigmund, 1, 2, 3
Friends, 1
fungi, 1
Gaelic, 1, 2, 3
Galloway, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
gannets, 1
Gap Years, 1
gardens and gardening, 1, 2, 3
Gateshead, 1
Gaul, 1
Gautama Buddha, 1, 2
Gellner, Ernest, 1
‘genius’, 1
George V, King, 1
Germany, 1
Gethsemane monastery, 1, 2
Gibbon, Edward, 1
Gilbert and Sullivan, 1
Girvan, 1
‘givennness’, sense of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Glen Affric, 1
Glenbrittle, 1
glossolalia, 1
Gnostics, 1
God
name of, 1
nature of, 1
Godwin, William, 1
Golden Globe race, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
golden plover, 1
Goldilocks, 1
Goldsworthy, Andy, 1
Goldsworthy, Joanna, 1
‘Goose Girl, The’, 1
Gormley, Anthony, 1
Göttingen, 1
Goutran de Procius, 1
Gowdie, Isobel, 1
Grand Canyon, 1
Grand Tours, 1
Grassian, Stuart, 1, 2
Gray, Thomas, 1, 2
Great Caledonian Forest, 1
Great Chthonic Terror, 1
Greece, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Greek, 1, 2, 3, 4
Greek deities, 1
Greek temples, 1
Greer, Germaine, 1
Grey, Anthony, 1, 2, 3
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, 1, 2
Guinevere, 1
Hadrian’s Wall, 1
Hagar, 1
hagiography, 1, 2
Hamilton, Ian, 1
happiness, pursuit of, 1
Haran, 1
Harris, 1
Hawking, Richard, 1
hearing, 1, 2, 3
hearing loss, 1
Heathery Burn, 1
heaven, 1
Hebrides, 1
Heliopolis, 1
hen harriers, 1, 2
heresy, 1
Hermaness bird sanctuary, 1
hermits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and accidie, 1, 2, 3
Buddhist, 1
desert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
English, 1
island, 1, 2
and joy, 1
modern, 1
and romanticism, 1
and sexual torment, 1
Hermopolis, 1
Hexham, 1
Hickson, Ford, 1
Highland Clearances, 1, 2, 3
Hildegard of Bingen, 1
Hillary, Edmund, 1
Himalayas, 1, 2, 3
Hofstadter, Douglas, 1, 2
Holy Trinity, 1
honeymoons, 1
hortus conclusus, 1
house martins, 1
House of Commons, 1
housekeeping, 1
Howard, Philip, 1
Howell, Bill, 1
human rights, 1
Hume, Cardinal Basil, 1
Hunt, John, 1, 2
hypertension, 1
Ibn Tufail, 1, 2
Ice Age, 1
Iceland, 1
identity, 1, 2
‘If ’ (Kipling), 1
ikebana, 1
India, 1
Indian Ocean, 1
individualism, 1, 2, 3, 4
Industrial Revolution, 1, 2
ineffability, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
negative, 1
infanticide, 1
infinity, 1
insects, 1, 2, 3
insomnia, 1
integrity, 1
‘Intimations of Immortality’ (Wordsworth), 1
Inuit languages, 1
Inverness, 1
Iona, 1, 2
Iraq, 1
Ireland, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Irish poetry, 1
Irish Sea, 1, 2
Ishmael, 1
Islam, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
political, 1
islands, 1
Islay, 1
Isle of Man, 1, 2
Isle of Wight, 1, 2
Israel, 1
Italy, 1, 2, 3
Jane Eyre (Brontë), 1
Japan, 1
Jenks, Charles, 1
Jerusalem, 1, 2
destruction of the Temple, 1
fall of, 1
Jesus Christ, 1, 2, 3
birth of, 1
fasting in desert, 1, 2
and martyrdom, 1
trial of, 1
Jia Dao, 1
Jones, Rhys, 1
Jordan, 1
joy (jouissance), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Juan Fernandez, 1
Judaism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Julian of Norwich, 1, 2, 3
Jung, Carl Gustav, 1
Jungle Book, The (Kipling), 1
jungles, 1
Kafka, Franz, 1, 2, 3
Kennacraig, 1
Kennedy, Robert, 1
kenosis, 1, 2, 3, 4
Kentucky, 1, 2
Kerouac, Jack, 1
Khemnu, 1
Kierkegaard, Søren, 1
King, Martin Luther, 1
Kipling, Rudyard, 1, 2
kites, 1
Knox-Johnston, Robin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Knoydart, 1
Korea, 1
Krakauer, Jon, 1, 2
Kristeva, Julia, 1
Kronos, 1
Kyle of Lochalsh, 1
Kylerhea, 1
La Nouvelle Héloïse (Rousseau), 1
Lacout, Pierre, 1
Laggangairn standing stones, 1, 2
Lake District, 1, 2, 3
Lanarkshire, 1
landscape, 1
language, 1, 2, 3, 4
and creation, 1, 2, 3
and pauses, 1
and reading, 1, 2
and silence, 1, 2, 3, 4
and the sun, 1
women and, 1
and Zen, 1
Latin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
le Guin, Ursula, 1, 2
lead mining, 1
Leonardo da Vinci, 1
Leppard, Tom, 1
Lewis, C. S., 1
libraries, 1
lichens, 1
Liddell and Scott’s Greek lexicon, 1
lighthouse keepers, 1
Lilith, 1
Lindbergh, Charles, 1
Lindisfarne, 1, 2, 3
literacy, 1, 2
literature
and endings, 1
genres of, 1
Liverpool, 1
Liverpool Cathedral, 1
Loch Enoch, 1
Loch Slapin, 1
Loch Trool, 1
Loki, 1
London, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
East End, 1, 2
London time, 1
London Labour and the London Poor
(Mayhew), 1
Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien), 1
Lord’s Prayer, 1
Lorrain, Claude, 1
Los Angeles, 1
Lowland Clearances, 1
Luib, 1
Luther, Martin, 1
McArthur, Ellen, 1
McCandless, Chris, 1, 2
Macfarlane, Robert, 1
Machars, the, 1
madness, 1, 2
Maid Marian, 1
Mallory, George, 1, 2
Mao Zedong, 1
Maori creation story, 1
Mar Saba monastery, 1
Märchen (fairy tales), 1, 2
Marguerite of Navarre, 1, 2
marooning, 1, 2
martyrdom, 1, 2
Mary, mother of Jesus, 1
masculinity, 1, 2
Matthews, Peter, 1
Mayhew, Henry, 1
meditation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
zazen, 1
Mediterranean, 1, 2
Meher Baba, 1
melancholy, 1
Melrose, 1
memory, 1, 2, 3
textual, 1
menopause, 1, 2
Merck, Mandy, 1
Merlin, 1
Merrick, the, 1, 2, 3
Merton, Thomas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Milan, 1
Milton, John, 1
Minch, the, 1
mind, and silence, 1, 2
Miner, Valerie, 1
miniskirts, 1
mobile phones, 1, 2, 3
Moitessier, Bernard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
monasticism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Mont Blanc, 1
‘Mont Blanc’ (Shelley), 1
Montaigne, Michel de, 1, 2
Morocco, 1
Moses, 1, 2
Mount Athos, 1
Mount Everest, 1, 2, 3
Mount Hira, 1
Mount Sinai, 1
mountain madness, 1
mountaineering, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Muckle Flugga, 1
Muhammad ibn Abdullah, 1, 2
Mull, 1
Mull of Kintyre, 1
Mulville, Frank, 1
Munch, Edvard, 1
music, 1, 2
‘music of the spheres’, 1
musical notation, 1
myths and traditional stories, 1, 2
creation stories, 1
Märchen (fairy tales), 1, 2
and the sun, 1
nationalism, 1, 2
nature writing, 1
navigation, 1
Negev Desert, 1
Nemo, Captain, 1
New Luce, 1, 2
New York state, 1
New Zealand, 1, 2
Newcastle, 1
Newfoundland, 1
Newton, Isaac, 1
Nichols, Peter, 1, 2
Nicolson, Adam, 1, 2, 3
Nieve of the Spit, 1
Nile, river, 1, 2, 3, 4
noise
ambient, 1
sensitivity to, 1
Norman Conquest, 1
Norse mythology, 1, 2, 3
North Africa, 1
North America, 1
North Lodge, 1, 2
North Pole, 1
North Sea, 1, 2
Northamptonshire, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Northanger Abbey (Austen), 1
Norway, 1
novices, 1
Orion, 1
ornithology, 1, 2
oronyms, 1
osteoporosis, 1
Other Voices, 1
otters, 1
Outer Hebrides, 1, 2, 3
owls, 1, 2
Oxford, 1, 2
Oxford time, 1
Oxford English Dictionary, Compact
Edition, 1
oxygen deprivation, 1
Pacific Ocean, 1
Paish, Karin, 1
Palestine, 1, 2
Pangu and the Yellow Emperor, 1
panic, 1
Paradise Lost (Milton), 1
Paris, 1
patriarchy, 1
pauses, 1
Peking, 1
Pembroke College, 1
Pennine Way, 1
Pennines, 1, 2
Persephone, 1
Petronius, 1
Phillips, Adam, 1
Phillips, John, 1
Picard, Max, 1, 2
Picardy, 1
Pinker, Steven, 1
pirates, 1
plainsong, 1, 2, 3
planets, 1
Plato, 1
Pleiades, 1, 2
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1
Poland, 1
population density, 1, 2
porpoises, 1, 2, 3
porridge, 1, 2, 3
Port Ellen, 1
Portugal, 1
prayer, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
‘apophatic’, 1, 2
communal and silent, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Protestant, 1
and psychoanalysis, 1
Prebble, John, 1
Prelude, The (Wordsworth), 1
privacy, 1, 2
Procne and Philomel, 1, 2
Profumo affair, 1
Prometheus, 1
protest, silent, 1
Protestantism, 1
psalms, 1, 2, 3, 4
psychoanalysis, 1, 2, 3, 4
punctuation, 1
Quakerism, 1
Quebec, 1
Quorr Abbey, 1
rabbits, 1
radio programmes, 1
radios, 1, 2, 3
rage, 1, 2
Ragnarok, battle of, 1, 2
railways, 1, 2
‘Rainbow, The’ (Wordsworth), 1
Raphael, 1
‘rapture of the deep’ (depth narcosis), 1
reading, 1, 2
Reformation, 1, 2
Reinhardswald, 1
relationships, 1, 2
religious communities, 1, 2, 3, 4
see also monasticism
Remembrance Sunday, 1
Reoch, Elspeth, 1
retreats, 1, 2, 3, 4
rhetoric, 1
Rhine, river, 1
risk, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ritter, Christiane, 1, 2, 3, 4
rituals, 1
and prayer, 1
and remembrance, 1
and the sun, 1
Robert the Bruce, 1
Roberts, Michèle, 1
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 1, 2, 3, 4
Roman Catholicism, 1, 2, 3
Roman Catholics, on Islay, 1
Romans, 1, 2, 3, 4
romanticism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
and identity, 1
Rome, 1, 2
Romulus and Remus, 1
Room of One’s Own, A (Woolf), 1
Rothko, Mark, 1
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1, 2
Rowland, Christopher, 1
Royal Navy, 1
‘Rumpelstiltskin’, 1, 2
Ruskin College, 1
Russia, 1
Sababurg Castle, 1
Sabine women, rape of, 1
sacraments, 1
Sahara Desert, 1, 2
sailors and sailing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
St Andrew’s, 1
St Anthony, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
St Athanasius, 1, 2, 3, 4
St Augustine, 1, 2, 3
St Basil the Great, 1
St Bede, 1, 2
St Benedict, 1, 2, 3, 4
St Bernadette of Lourdes, 1
St Boniface, 1
St Bridget of Sweden, 1
St Catherine of Siena, 1, 2, 3
St Columba, 1, 2
St Cuthbert, 1, 2, 3, 4
St Helena, 1
St Hilda of Whitby, 1
St Jerome, 1
St John Cassian, 1, 2, 3, 4
St John of the Cross, 1
St John the Baptist, 1
St Kenneth, 1
St Kilda, 1, 2
St Lawrence seaway, 1
St Mary of Egypt, 1
St Ninian, 1
St Paul, 1, 2, 3, 4
St Romuald, 1
St Teresa of Avila, 1, 2
St Thérèse of Lisieux, 1, 2
saints, women, 1, 2
San Francisco, 1
Satan, 1, 2, 3
Satyrica (Petronius), 1
Saudi Arabia, 1
Sayers, Dorothy, 1
Sayings of the Desert Fathers, The 1, 2, 3, 4
Scandinavia, 1
Scafell Pike, 1
Schama, Simon, 1
scholasticism, 1
science, 1
Scilly Isles, 1
Scotland, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and Christianity, 1
forests, 1,
2
south-west, 1, 2
witch trials, 1
Scottish Highlands, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Scottish islands, 1, 2
Screwtape Letters, The (Lewis), 1
scripta continua, 1
seals, 1
Selborne, 1
Selkirk, Alexander, 1, 2, 3
sensory deprivation, 1, 2
sex, 1, 2, 3
sexual abuse, 1
Shakespeare, William, 1
Sharm el Sheikh, 1
sheep, 1, 2, 3
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1, 2, 3
Shetland Isles, 1
Shiant Isles, 1, 2
shopping malls, 1
sign language, 1, 2, 3, 4
silence
and boundary confusions, 1, 2, 3
communal, 1
and danger, 1
definition of, 1, 2
and disinhibition, 1, 2, 3, 4
and the divine, 1, 2
early accounts of, 1
eremitical silence, 1, 2
fear of, 1, 2, 3
and free choice, 1, 2
and ‘givenness’, 1, 2
and God, 1
interior dimension of, 1
and joy, 1
and lack, 1
and mental illness, 1
and natural phenomena, 1
and oppression, 1
and organic growth, 1, 2
personification of, 1
and physical forces, 1
and physical sensations, 1, 2, 3
and risk, 1, 2
and screaming, 1
and secrets, 1
and selfishness, 1
and solitude, 1, 2
‘sound of silence’, 1, 2
and spiritual development, 1, 2
and time, 1
and transmitter/receptor problem, 1
trial by, 1
types of, 1, 2, 3
and visual austerity, 1
and voices, 1, 2
volumes of, 1
vows of, 1, 2
and weaning, 1, 2