Wild Harbour (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Scottish Highlands Survival Tale of Future War, Refuge, and Antiwar DystopiaBy Ian Macpherson
Length6h 50m
About this audiobook
First published in 1936, Wild Harbour is a spare, prophetic Scottish novel that imagines a near-future Britain sliding into mechanized war. Its married protagonists, Hugh and Terry, withdraw from civilization to a remote Highland cave, seeking survival and moral refuge from a society they believe has surrendered to violence. Written in a lucid yet compressed prose, the book combines pastoral tradition, survival narrative, and interwar dystopia, setting intimate domestic endurance against the vast historical pressures of militarism and collapse. Ian Macpherson, a Scottish writer associated with the cultural energies of the interwar period, brought to the novel a deep awareness of landscape, language, and the fragility of modern social order. Living in the shadow of the First World War and amid the mounting anxieties that preceded the Second, he shaped Wild Harbour as both an imaginative warning and a meditation on withdrawal, conscience, and the limits of individual resistance. This is a rewarding book for readers interested in early dystopian fiction, Scottish modernism, ecological writing, or anti-war literature. Quiet, austere, and unsettling, Wild Harbour deserves renewed attention as a haunting study of love, fear, and survival at the edge of history.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Dystopia
Length6 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 8, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
1216 SEPTEMBER
2Wild Harbour
131 OCTOBER
321 MAY
142 OCTOBER
428 MAY
155 OCTOBER
510 JUNE
169 OCTOBER
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622 JUNE
1710 OCTOBER
75 JULY
1811 OCTOBER
810 JULY
19NIGHT
924 JULY
20THE END
1016 AUGUST
21Memorable Quotes
114 SEPTEMBER
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