This is an account of the author's travels around the world—in Africa, America, Australia, and Europe—to discover the significance of great cliffs and outcrops, to see at first hand how people have lived in their shadows or on their faces and summits.
David Craig (b. 1932) was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the University of Aberdeen. From 1959 to 1961 he lectured in English at the University of Ceylon. He was subsequently Organising Tutor for the Workers' Educational Association, West Yorkshire.