A Book of Silence (51 page)

nationalism,
1
,
2

nature writing,
1

navigation,
1

Negev Desert,
1

Nemo, Captain,
1

New Luce,
1
,
2

New York state,
1

New Zealand,
1
,
2

Newcastle,
1

Newfoundland,
1

Newton, Isaac,
1

Nichols, Peter,
1
,
2

Nicolson, Adam,
1
,
2
,
3

Nieve of the Spit,
1

Nile, river,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

noise

ambient,
1

sensitivity to,
1

Norman Conquest,
1

Norse mythology,
1
,
2
,
3

North Africa,
1

North America,
1

North Lodge,
1
,
2

North Pole,
1

North Sea,
1
,
2

Northamptonshire,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

Northanger Abbey
(Austen),
1

Norway,
1

novices,
1

Orion,
1

ornithology,
1
,
2

oronyms,
1

osteoporosis,
1

Other Voices,
1

otters,
1

Outer Hebrides,
1
,
2
,
3

owls,
1
,
2

Oxford,
1
,
2

Oxford time,
1

Oxford English Dictionary,
Compact

Edition,
1

oxygen deprivation,
1

Pacific Ocean,
1

Paish, Karin,
1

Palestine,
1
,
2

Pangu and the Yellow Emperor,
1

panic,
1

Paradise Lost
(Milton),
1

Paris,
1

patriarchy,
1

pauses,
1

Peking,
1

Pembroke College,
1

Pennine Way,
1

Pennines,
1
,
2

Persephone,
1

Petronius,
1

Phillips, Adam,
1

Phillips, John,
1

Picard, Max,
1
,
2

Picardy,
1

Pinker, Steven,
1

pirates,
1

plainsong,
1
,
2
,
3

planets,
1

Plato,
1

Pleiades,
1
,
2

Poe, Edgar Allan,
1

Poland,
1

population density,
1
,
2

porpoises,
1
,
2
,
3

porridge,
1
,
2
,
3

Port Ellen,
1

Portugal,
1

prayer,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6

‘apophatic’,
1
,
2

communal and silent,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

Protestant,
1

and psychoanalysis,
1

Prebble, John,
1

Prelude, The
(Wordsworth),
1

privacy,
1
,
2

Procne and Philomel,
1
,
2

Profumo affair,
1

Prometheus,
1

protest, silent,
1

Protestantism,
1

psalms,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

psychoanalysis,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

punctuation,
1

Quakerism,
1

Quebec,
1

Quorr Abbey,
1

rabbits,
1

radio programmes,
1

radios,
1
,
2
,
3

rage,
1
,
2

Ragnarok, battle of,
1
,
2

railways,
1
,
2

‘Rainbow, The’ (Wordsworth),
1

Raphael,
1

‘rapture of the deep’ (depth narcosis),
1

reading,
1
,
2

Reformation,
1
,
2

Reinhardswald,
1

relationships,
1
,
2

religious communities,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

see also
monasticism

Remembrance Sunday,
1

Reoch, Elspeth,
1

retreats,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

rhetoric,
1

Rhine, river,
1

Rio Branco, Barão de,
1

risk,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

Ritter, Christiane,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

rituals,
1

and prayer,
1

and remembrance,
1

and the sun,
1

Robert the Bruce,
1

Roberts, Michèle,
1

Robinson Crusoe
(Defoe),
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Roman Catholicism,
1
,
2
,
3

Roman Catholics, on Islay,
1

Romans,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

romanticism,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8

and identity,
1

Rome,
1
,
2

Romulus and Remus,
1

Room of One’s Own, A
(Woolf),
1

Rothko, Mark,
1

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
1
,
2

Rowland, Christopher,
1

Royal Navy,
1

‘Rumpelstiltskin’,
1
,
2

Ruskin College,
1

Russia,
1

Sababurg Castle,
1

Sabine women, rape of,
1

sacraments,
1

Sahara Desert,
1
,
2

sailors and sailing,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7

St Andrew’s,
1

St Anthony,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6

St Athanasius,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

St Augustine,
1
,
2
,
3

St Basil the Great,
1

St Bede,
1
,
2

St Benedict,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

St Bernadette of Lourdes,
1

St Boniface,
1

St Bridget of Sweden,
1

St Catherine of Siena,
1
,
2
,
3

St Columba,
1
,
2

St Cuthbert,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

St Helena,
1

St Hilda of Whitby,
1

St Jerome,
1

St John Cassian,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

St John of the Cross,
1

St John the Baptist,
1

St Kenneth,
1

St Kilda,
1
,
2

St Lawrence seaway,
1

St Mary of Egypt,
1

St Ninian,
1

St Paul,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

St Romuald,
1

St Teresa of Avila,
1
,
2

St Thérèse of Lisieux,
1
,
2

saints, women,
1
,
2

San Francisco,
1

Satan,
1
,
2
,
3

Satyrica
(Petronius),
1

Saudi Arabia,
1

Sayers, Dorothy,
1

Sayings of the Desert Fathers, The
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Scandinavia,
1

Scafell Pike,
1

Schama, Simon,
1

scholasticism,
1

science,
1

Scilly Isles,
1

Scotland,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

and Christianity,
1

forests,
1
,
2

south-west,
1
,
2

witch trials,
1

Scottish Highlands,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8

Scottish islands,
1
,
2

Screwtape Letters, The
(Lewis),
1

scripta continua,
1

seals,
1

Selborne,
1

Selkirk, Alexander,
1
,
2
,
3

sensory deprivation,
1
,
2

sex,
1
,
2
,
3

sexual abuse,
1

Shakespeare, William,
1

Sharm el Sheikh,
1

sheep,
1
,
2
,
3

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
1
,
2
,
3

Shetland Isles,
1

Shiant Isles,
1
,
2

shopping malls,
1

sign language,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

silence

and boundary confusions,
1
,
2
,
3

communal,
1

and danger,
1

definition of,
1
,
2

and disinhibition,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

and the divine,
1
,
2

early accounts of,
1

eremitical silence,
1
,
2

fear of,
1
,
2
,
3

and free choice,
1
,
2

and ‘givenness’,
1
,
2

and God,
1

interior dimension of,
1

and joy,
1

and lack,
1

and mental illness,
1

and natural phenomena,
1

and oppression,
1

and organic growth,
1
,
2

personification of,
1

and physical forces,
1

and physical sensations,
1
,
2
,
3

and risk,
1
,
2

and screaming,
1

and secrets,
1

and selfishness,
1

and solitude,
1
,
2

‘sound of silence’,
1
,
2

and spiritual development,
1
,
2

and time,
1

and transmitter/receptor problem,
1

trial by,
1

types of,
1
,
2
,
3

and visual austerity,
1

and voices,
1
,
2

volumes of,
1

vows of,
1
,
2

and weaning,
1
,
2

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