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Cargando... Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape (Father Anselm Novels)por Fiona Stafford
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. An excellent collection of essays of nature writing, memoir and landscape history. Places that mean something the author are viewed, described and pictured in layers of what is seen, what is felt and what emerges from memory and research. Lanscape prompting thought, meditation, memories and diversions. Nicely done. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
'Poetic and profound, Time and Tide is wise, considered and full of surprises' Observer 'Poignant and touching' Mail on Sunday 'Miraculous' Scotsman A village waits at the bottom of a reservoir. A monkey puzzle tree bristles in a suburban garden. A skein of wild geese fly over a rusty rail viaduct. The vast inland sea that awed John Clare has become fields. Chapter by fascinating chapter, alive with literary, local, and her own family history, Fiona Stafford reveals the forces, both natural and human, which transform places. Swooping along coastlines, through forests and across fens, following in the footsteps of Burns and Keats, Celia Fiennes and Charles Dickens, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Noel Coward and Compton Mackenzie, join her, time-travelling deep into the stories of our Isles. From red squirrels to brick vistas, from botanical gardens to hot springs, the landscapes of Britain are full of delights and surprises. Chance discoveries of rare species, shipwrecks and unlikely ruins, curious trees and startling towers, weird caves and disused airfields, or even just baffling placenames offer ways into unexpected histories and hidden lives. The clues to the past are all round us - Time and Tide will help you find them. 'Shot through with tender delights and unexpected revelations' RICHARD HOLMES 'Wonderful . . . A fascinating compendium of people and places' PHILIP MARSDEN No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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