Colin Prior Author

Colin Prior is an acclaimed landscape photographer with almost four decades of experience. He seeks out patterns in the landscape and the hidden links between reality and the imagination. His images capturing sublime moments of light and land are the result of meticulous planning, and often take years to achieve. His previous books include Living Tribes (2003), The World’s Wild Places (2006) and Scotland’s Finest Landscapes (2014). In 2020 Merrell will also publish Prior’s book on the Karakoram mountains of Pakistan. Among Prior’s awards are the National Adventure Awards, Business Category Winner (2015), and the Scottish Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture (2020). He has been the subject of three BBC documentaries entitled Mountain Man. Professor Des Thompson is the Principal Adviser on Science and Biodiversity with the government agency NatureScot. He has specialist interests in arctic-alpine landscapes, habitats and birds. He has written widely on nature and has authored more than fifteen books, among them Nature’s Conscience: The Life and Legacy of Derek Ratcliffe (as co-editor, 2015) and Curious about Nature: A Passion for Fieldwork (as co-editor, 2020). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Chair of both the Field Studies Council and the UN Convention on Migratory Species Technical Advisory Group developing action plans for African and Eurasian birds.