Ground work : writings on people and places
2019
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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 best to live in the ruins that we have made? This anthology of commissioned work 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 Tim Ingold 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.
Main title:
Ground work : writings on people and places / edited by Tim Dee.
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London : Vintage, 2019.
Collation:
275 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2018.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781784703462 (pbk)
Dewey class:
304.2
Language:
English
BRN:
2724073
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