18. Kat Hill: Bothies, Dwelling and Landscape Histories
The Land Behind: Conversations on Photography, Perception and Place - Un pódcast de Peter Holliday
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Peter speaks to the author and researcher Kat Hill about bothies and what they can teach us about histories of dwelling and place. Kat is the author of Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter, published in 2024 by William Collins. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelandbehind Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelandbehindpodcast Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (00:58) Who is Kat Hill? (04:03) What is a bothy? (05:08) How did your interest in bothies begin? (09:18) What happens to old bothy guestbooks? (11:16) When did you decide to write a book about bothies? (14:08) What was the development of the book like? (16:21) Why did you choose the title? (18:42) How did bothies open a space for you to better understand yourself? (23:58) What is it that defines a bothy? (26:22) When we emphasise a bothy as a place of retreat what kind of meaning is being lost? (28:59) What can the military history of Cape Wrath tell us about the meaning of wilderness? (34:00) How can bothies help guide us through the environmental questions of our age? (38:49) What can bothies tell us about what it means to dwell? (44:06) How can bothies help inform new architectural models? (53:20) Sandy, the Cape Wrath Hermit of Strathchailleach Bothy (57:18) How can bothies open up the skies for us?
