Three Novellas: A Truth Lover, Pagan's Pilgrimage, & Clapperton

The anthology's depiction of Scottish life...will engage American readers."" - Publishers Weekly. ""The souls of the young men...mirror the landscape of his homeland: flinty, often desolate, but marked by sudden glimpses of remarkable beauty. His prickly, misanthropic heroes set outrageous tasks for themselves as they wrestle with questions of free will and objective truth, intellectual pride and redeeming humility...These are classic tales of alienated, cerebral young men who rely on antisocial action to attain a higher truth and self-knowledge...Their cool intelligence is tempered with humor and, ultimately, a humane vision that redeems them from their self-imposed fates"" - NY Times.