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Bezig met laden... Walking the Great North Line: From Stonehenge to Lindisfarne to Discover the Mysteries of Our Ancient Past (editie 2021)door Robert Twigger (Auteur), Robert Twigger (Verteller), Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Publisher)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The author, an inveterate walker, works out that a straight line drawn north to south through England connects many ancient, historical sites including Stonehenge and Avebury and ending in the semi-island of Lindisfarne off the north east coast. He's not a believer in ley lines but he understands that place can harbour the intangible. Give you a connection to something other worldly. He decides to walk the line. He camps as he goes along, from time to time reluctantly staying in a B and B or a hostel but mostly happily content in his little tent whatever the weather. He has an admirable contempt for 'private, keep out' signs. He sleeps in all sorts of odd little hidden spots in woodlands, farmland or even the front garden of a stately home. An amusing companion with an acerbic, cynical but open and friendly view of the world. He chats to people but prefers his own company. Walking, as it often does, prompts philosophising and reminiscing. As many digressions as descriptions and all the better for it. ( ) This was a dreadful disappointment, and quite definitely the worst book I have suffered so far this year. That was frustrating because the potential for it to be a good book was so strong. I had expected intriguing accounts of the countryside and historical locations that the author's route took him to, but instead there were some desperately unsuccessful attempts at a sort of laddish humour. Well I laughed until I stopped. I can’t summon the mental energy required to say any more. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Robert Twigger, poet and travel author, was in search of a new way up England when he stumbled across the Great North Line. From Christchurch on the South Coast to Old Sarum to Stonehenge, to Avebury, to Notgrove barrow, to Meon Hill in the midlands, to Thor's Cave, to Arbor Low stone circle, to Mam Tor, to Ilkley in Yorkshire and its three stone circles and the Swastika Stone, to several forts and camps in Northumberland to Lindisfarne (plus about thirty more sites en route). A single dead straight line following 1 degree 50 West up Britain. No other north-south straight line goes through so many ancient sites of such significance. Was it just a suggestive coincidence or were they built intentionally? Twigger walks the line, which takes him through Birmingham, Halifax and Consett as well as Salisbury Plain, the Peak district, and the Yorkshire moors. With a planning schedule that focused more on reading about shamanism and beat poetry than hardening his feet up, he sets off ever hopeful. He wild-camps along the way, living like a homeless bum, with a heart that starts stifled but ends up soaring with the beauty of life. He sleeps in a prehistoric cave, falls into a river, crosses a 'suicide viaduct' and gets told off by a farmer's wife for trespassing; but in this simple life he finds woven gold. He walks with others and he walks alone, ever alert to the incongruities of the edgelands he is journeying through. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)914.2048612History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Europe England and Wales Travel 1837- Victoria & Windsors 2000- 2000-2019 2010-2019WaarderingGemiddelde:
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