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Ground Work
Tim Dee
其他書名
Writings on People and Places
出版
Random House UK
, 2019-04-23
主題
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Literary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Collections / Essays
ISBN
178470346X
9781784703462
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iOmQEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The essential and defining new collection of the best British nature writing
‘Tim Dee has brought together a wonderous array of talent for this life-affirming, often magical anthology’
Observer
We are living in the anthropocene – an epoch where everything is being determined by the activities of just one soft-skinned, warm-blooded, short-lived, pedestrian species.
How do we make our way through the ruins that we have made?
This anthology tries to answer this as it explores new and enduring cultural landscapes, in a celebration of local distinctiveness that includes new work from some of our finest writers. We have memories of childhood homes from
Adam Thorpe
,
Marina Warner
and
Sean O’Brien
; we journey with
John Burnside
to the Arizona desert, with
Hugh Brody
to the Canadian Arctic; going from
Tessa Hadley’s
hymn to her London garden to caving in the Mendips with
Sean Borodale
to shell-collecting on a Suffolk beach with
Julia Blackburn
.
Helen Macdonald
, in her remarkable piece on growing up in a 50-acre walled estate, reflects on our failed stewardship of the planet: ‘I take stock.’ she says, ‘During this sixth extinction, we who may not have time to do anything else must write now what we can, to take stock.’
This is an important, necessary book.
