Under the Rock
Benjamin Myers
Sachbuch / Natur: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke
Beschreibung
The astonishing new work of non-fiction from the prize-winning author of Rare Singles, The Gallows Pole and The OffingUnder the Rock is about badgers, balsam, history, nettles, mythology, moorlands, mosses, poetry, bats, wild swimming, slugs, recession, floods, logging, peacocks, community, apples, asbestos, quarries, geology, industrial music, owls, stone walls, farming, anxiety, relocation, the North, woodpiles, folklore, landslides, ruins, terriers, woodlands, ravens, dales, valleys, walking, animal skulls, trespassing, crows, factories, maps, rain - lots of rain - and a great big rock.-----**Shortlisted for the Portico Prize**'Extraordinary, elemental ... never less than compelling: this is a wild, dark grimoire of a book'TLS'Exceptionally engaging ... beguiling ... this is a startling, unclassifiable book' Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman'Compelling ... admirable and engrossing. Myers writes of the rain with a poet's eye worthy of Hughes' Erica Wagner, New Statesman'A bone-tingling book' Richard Benson, author of The Valley and The Farm'A truly elemental read from which I emerged subtly changed... It has all the makings of a classic' Miriam Darlington, author of Otter Country and Owl Sense
Kundenbewertungen
slab, honest, childhood, mind, memory, poetry, beauty, poet, nature writing, Benjamin Myers, darkness, hill, community, health, valley, UK, essay, modern life, modernity, setting, complexity, Britain, voyage, discovery, wood, bold, ravine, Yorkshire, death, investigation, author, exploration, travel, origin, literature, nature, travel writing, landscape, Northern England, kin, self, wild, original, granit, lyrical, mineral, Ted Hughes, daring, 19th Century, asbestos, mental health, 21st Century, earth, novelist, understanding, rock, region, existence, dale, place, stone, identity, town, award-winning, 18th Century, The Rock, soil, imagination, Scout Rock, history, slope, meaning, journey, wildlife, belonging, crag, art, mountain, 20th Century