THE SUMMER ISLES: A VOYAGE OF THE IMAGINATION is Philip Marsden's account of a solo sailing trip he took from Cornwall to the Summer Isles, a small archipelago near the top of Scotland that holds for him a deep and personal significance. Through the people he meets and the tales he uncovers, Marsden builds up a haunting picture of these shores – of imaginary islands and the Celtic otherworld, of the ageless draw of the west, of the life of the sea and perennial loss – and the redemptive power of the imagination.
