The artist, Amanda Thomson and I will be on a month-long residency that will kick-start an exploration of the literary and experimental essay form via the creation of a collection of action-researched, interrelated and co-authored essays that take as their starting point the notion of quest and will follow in the footsteps of five 19th/20th century botanists and citizen scientists who have held their own obsessions and questions for botanical, avian and other rarities across Scotland.