The Wild Places
(Sprache: Englisch)
"The Wild Places" is both an intellectual and a physical journey, and Macfarlane travels in time as well as space. Guided by monks, questers, scientists, philosophers, poets and artists, both living and dead, he explores our changing ideas of the wild. From...
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"The Wild Places" is both an intellectual and a physical journey, and Macfarlane travels in time as well as space. Guided by monks, questers, scientists, philosophers, poets and artists, both living and dead, he explores our changing ideas of the wild. From the cliffs of Cape Wrath, to the holloways of Dorset, the storm-beaches of Norfolk, the saltmarshes and estuaries of Essex, and the moors of Rannoch and the Pennines, his journeys become the conductors of people and cultures, past and present, who have had intense relationships with these places. Certain birds, animals, trees and objects - snow-hares, falcons, beeches, crows, suns, white stones - recur, and as it progresses this densely patterned book begins to bind tighter and tighter. At once a wonder voyage, an adventure story, an exercise in visionary cartography, and a work of natural history, "The Wild Places" is written in a style and a form as unusual as the places with which it is concerned. It also tells the story ofa friendship, and of a loss. It mixes history, memory and landscape in a strange and beautiful evocation of wildness and its vital importance.
Autoren-Porträt von Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane, geboren 1976 in Nottinghamshire, studierte Literaturwissenschaft in Cambridge, und begann schon als Kind mit dem Bergsteigen. 2011 wurde Macfarlane, der auch als Essayist und Kritiker für den Guardian tätig ist, zum Mitglied der Royal Society of Literature ernannt.
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- Autor: Robert Macfarlane
- 2008, 352 Seiten, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Granta Books
- ISBN-10: 1847080189
- ISBN-13: 9781847080189
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Englisch
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