A Book of Silence

by Sara Maitland

silence, right to, 1

  silkies, 1

  Simpson, Joe, 1, 2, 3

  Sinai Desert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Sitka spruce, 1

  Siula Grande, 1

  ‘Six Swan Brothers, The’, 1

  Skjolden, 1

  Skye cattle, 1

  Sleat, 1

  sleep deprivation, 1

  Sleeping Beauty, 1, 2

  Sligachan, 1

  snow, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  snow poles, 1

  Snow White, 1

  Snowdonia, 1

  socialism, 1, 2

  Socrates, 1

  solitary confinement, 1, 2, 3

  ‘Solitude of Alexander Selkirk, The’ (Cowper), 1

  Solomon, Andrew, 1

  Solway Firth, 1

  songlines, 1

  South Africa, 1

  Southern Upland Way, 1, 2

  Southern Uplands, 1, 2

  Soviet Union, 1, 2

  Spain, 1, 2

  spatial confusion, 1

  spiders, 1

  Stair Estate, 1

  Stanhope, 1, 2

  stars, 1, 2

  Steele, Richard, 1, 2

  Steiner, George, 1, 2

  Stephen, Leslie, 1

  Stewart Island, 1

  Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, 1

  Storr, Anthony, 1, 2

  Strathaird peninsula, 1

  stress, 1, 2

  sublime, the, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Suffolk, 1

  sun, 1

  midnight, 1

  Sunday Times, 1, 2

  sunrise, 1

  Syria, 1, 2

  Tahiti, 1

  taste, 1

  Tate Modern, 1

  tattoos, 1

  Tecsa, 1

  teenagers, 1

  Teesdale, 1

  televisions, 1, 2, 3

  Tenzin Palmo, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Tenzing Norgay, 1

  terns, 1

  Tetley, Nigel, 1, 2

  Thatcherism, 1

  Thevet, André, 1

  Thoreau, Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  economic theory, 1

  Thousand and One Nights, The, 1

  Throstlehole monastery, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  tides, 1

  time, 1

  sense of, 1, 2

  Times, The, 1, 2

  Timon of Athens (Shakespeare), 1

  tinnitus, 1

  Titanic, 1

  Tolstoy, Leo, 1

  Torridons, 1

  Tourette’s syndrome, 1

  Tower of Babel, 1

  Trappists, 1, 2, 3, 4

  trial by silence, 1

  Ts’u-t’ing shih-yuan, 1

  Tuareg nomads, 1, 2

  Turner, J. M. W., 1

  Twickenham, 1

  Twin Towers, 1

  Underhill, Evelyn, 1

  United States of America, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  universe, origin of, 1, 2

  Unst, 1

  Ur of the Chaldees, 1

  Uranus, 1

  ‘urgencies’, 1

  Valentinus, 1

  Valhalla, 1

  via negativa, 1

  Vietnam War, 1

  vigils, 1, 2, 3

  Vikings, 1

  village life, 1

  Virgil, 1

  virginity, 1

  Vishnu, 1

  visual arts, 1

  voices, hearing, see auditory hallucinations

  Waddell, Helen, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Walden (Thoreau), 1, 2

  Wandor, Michelene, 1

  Wareham, Anne, 1

  Warkton, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Washington, 1

  Weatherhill, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Weil, Simone, 1, 2, 3

  Welsh, Jock, 1

  West Highland Way, 1

  Westminster Abbey, 1

  White, Gilbert, 1

  Whithorn, 1

  William the Conqueror, 1

  Williams, Geoffrey, 1

  Williams, Rowan, 1

  Wilson, James, 1

  Winnicott, Donald, 1

  witches, 1

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1, 2

  Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1

  wolves, 1, 2

  women

  and language, 1

  and silent reading, 1

  saints, 1, 2

  women’s rights, 1, 2

  see also feminism

  Woolf, Virginia, 1, 2, 3

  Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1

  Wordsworth, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  writing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  feminist, 1, 2

  Yates, Simon, 1

  York, 1

  Yorkshire dales, 1

  Zen Buddhism, 1, 2

  Zozimos, 1