Sid Harta Publishers

Jeff Lynch

Jeff Lynch is a retired Australian art teacher, film and beer buff whose inquiring mind, thirst and wanderlust led him on a quest for the legendary Berggeist, the German mountain spirit of the wilderness. These 44 letters to his young grandson Angus are whimsical word paintings of his travels through Europe and the United Kingdom. In sunshine, fog and passing fancy, he battles with the dregs of depression, his love of family and nature, the paradox of art and the artist and the tragedy of political persecution while his amorous and humorous encounters reveal his own inner Berggeist.

In 2006, he spent more than two and a half months living in an apartment in the heart of Berlin, close to the Tiergarten. He also travelled widely throughout Germany and visited Bavaria, Salzburg and Vienna. Then he looped up northwards through Denmark, Norway and then made visits to many of the outer and inner Scottish islands, ending up in Ireland. This gave rise to The Berggeist Letters (published by Sid Harta Publishers).