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Edgeland

- Walking the South West Coast Path
Af: Sasha Swire Engelsk Paperback

Edgeland

- Walking the South West Coast Path
Af: Sasha Swire Engelsk Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Diary of an MP''s Wife comes a beautiful discovery of Britain''s great coastal path

In Edgeland, the political diarist Sasha Swire escapes the confines of Westminster to walk the northern stretch of the South West Coast Path. Starting at Minehead in Somerset, she follows the well-trodden path to Land''s End in Cornwall, walking it in sections over a decade-long period, returning each year like a migratory bird.

The result is an immersive, beguiling and literary exploration of one of the most enigmatic, beautiful and popular coastlines on earth. It is also a contemplative and very personal response to a story about our English shore from pre-Celtic times to the present day; of the upheaval of rocks; of astonishing botany; of pilgrimage and customs; of the exploitation of resources and of dangers to come.

Swire identifies how important edges are to us as she walks, not only in how we see our world but in our attitude to it. She observes that the outside limits, the borders, the line where two surfaces of a solid meet actively, encourage not only flora and fauna but people to gather, create, generate resistance and build new ways of living and working.

She discovers that the path is not only a walk through Britain''s windswept and wave-battered western fringes but a tale about how we and nature have, through extraordinary resilience and relentless spirit, learnt to tame the various forces that are stacked against us. That we live at the edge of the possible.

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From the bestselling author of Diary of an MP''s Wife comes a beautiful discovery of Britain''s great coastal path

In Edgeland, the political diarist Sasha Swire escapes the confines of Westminster to walk the northern stretch of the South West Coast Path. Starting at Minehead in Somerset, she follows the well-trodden path to Land''s End in Cornwall, walking it in sections over a decade-long period, returning each year like a migratory bird.

The result is an immersive, beguiling and literary exploration of one of the most enigmatic, beautiful and popular coastlines on earth. It is also a contemplative and very personal response to a story about our English shore from pre-Celtic times to the present day; of the upheaval of rocks; of astonishing botany; of pilgrimage and customs; of the exploitation of resources and of dangers to come.

Swire identifies how important edges are to us as she walks, not only in how we see our world but in our attitude to it. She observes that the outside limits, the borders, the line where two surfaces of a solid meet actively, encourage not only flora and fauna but people to gather, create, generate resistance and build new ways of living and working.

She discovers that the path is not only a walk through Britain''s windswept and wave-battered western fringes but a tale about how we and nature have, through extraordinary resilience and relentless spirit, learnt to tame the various forces that are stacked against us. That we live at the edge of the possible.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9780349145198
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0349145199
Udg. Dato: 6 jun 2024
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 200mm
Forlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato: 6 jun 2024
Forfatter(e): Sasha Swire
Forfatter(e) Sasha Swire


Kategori South West England: Places of interest


ISBN-13 9780349145198


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 288


Udgave


Længde 21mm


Bredde 129mm


Højde 200mm


Udg. Dato 6 jun 2024


Oplagsdato 6 jun 2024


Forlag Little, Brown Book Group