Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish HighlandsWindswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas ROBERT MACFARLANE An instant classic of British nature writing SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland. It is a land ruled by great elemental forces light, wind and water that hold sway over how land forms, where the sea sits and what grows.