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August 14, 2006: |
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Personal
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Hamish Brown
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| Address |
26 Kirkcaldy Road
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BURNTISLAND
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Fife
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KY3 9HQ
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01592 873546
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| Email |
Brown@owg.org.uk
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| Professional writer, lecturer and photographer specialising in mountain, outdoor and travel topics, topography, prehistoric sites, historical interests and travel worldwide. Has written or edited over 20 books, ranging from poems (his own and anthologies) and short stories, well-researched and illustrated guidebooks, to narratives on major expeditions (Munros in a single trip, the Groat's End Walk, Atlas end-to-end). Has appeared on radio and TV (most recently Atlas Mountains for the Wilderness Walks series and on Collectors Lot) and work has appeared in various anthologies.
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| Organiser: AMIS (Atlas Mountain Information Services); Proprietor: Hamish Brown, Scottish Photographic (picture library).
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| Frequent contributor to magazines (Scots Magazine, TGO, etc) and press, radio scripts, book illustrations and commissions. Has contributed to over 100 publications worldwide, as diverse as Tetley Tea Card, postcard for British Museum, In Flight magazines, Financial Times, Grove's Dictionary of Music, Countryman, Skye Views and Starkers!
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| 2000, Member of the British Empire; 2000, Fellow of RSGS; 1997 Honorary DLitt, St Andrews University; Scottish Arts Council Award for Hamish's Mountain Walk; Publishers' Association Book Design Award for 25 Walks: Fife (HMSO); Thomas Cook Travel Award shortlist for Hamish's Groat's End Walk. Has won various literary prizes for outdoor/mountain stories and poems.
| Baton Wicks compendium of Hamish's Mountain Walk and Climbing the Corbetts; 25 Walks, Fife and 25 Walks, Skye and Kintail; Along the Fife Coastal Path (Mercat Press); Seton Gordon's Scotland (anthology)
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| Main areas of interest | |
| Scotland (especially Corbetts, Munros, Scottish mountains, West Highland Railway); Morocco (Atlas Mountains, deserts, coasts, cities etc); mountain literature.
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