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Bezig met laden... Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places (editie 2020)door Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards
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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. I generally really enjoy Macfarlane's stuff. But the first piece here (originally [b:Ness|44084056|Ness|Robert Macfarlane|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1564582134l/44084056._SY75_.jpg|68552831]), particularly, I found to be unsatisfyingly vague (or overly "litry"). The second piece (originally [b:Holloway|17847110|Holloway|Robert Macfarlane|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1368349628l/17847110._SY75_.jpg|24777047]), which is woven with memories of his great friend, Roger Deakin, was much richer and enjoyable. ( ) This is broken into two parts. The first reminded me of reading Homer's Odyssey or Iliad. It is in that style and has a mythological feel. The second is still prose but more a straight forward love of nature and appreciating the beauty of it. He journeys back to a place he explored years earlier with a friend who has since passed away. Both of them are about exploring Nature and appreciating it for what it is. A bonus is is has some cool black and white illustrations in it as well. I loved this book. Ghostways is made up of two pieces, each evocative of a specific place, and both beautifully written. Both were previously available in the UK, and now newly available in the US. The first piece "Ness", is a prose poem on a visit to Orford Ness, a spit of pebbled land adjacent to the Suffolk coast of England, used for many years as a military testing grounds. The second, "Holloway" is a story about two visits to a path in Dorset (along England's south coast), a path (or "way"), well used for centuries and so sunk deep into the soft rock of the area to form what today is more like a tunnel, overgrown with bramble and almost hidden from view - a "holloway". On his first visit MacFarlane is accompanied by a friend who has died by the time of the second visit, and so the story can be seen as a journey into the memory of friendship. The illustrations by Stanley Donwood fit the mood and the narrative of the first piece completely, and compliment the second. MacFarlane has been called Britain's foremost living nature writer. In this short book, as in his book The Old Ways which I read last year, paths through nature bring understanding of both our humanness and of the natural world. I rate this book 5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - this book is fantastic - I think anyone looking to reconnect with nature from a pandemic (or winter) seclusion will enjoy Ghostways. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"A hauntingly beautiful diptych of works inspired by Robert Macfarlane's travels with celebrated collaborators to two eerie corners of England. In Holloway, "a perfect miniature prose-poem" (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near the south coast of England, to explore a famed "hollowed way"-a path used by walkers and riders for so many centuries that it has become worn far down into the soft golden bedrock of the region. In Ness, "a triumphant libretto of mythic modernism for our poisoned age" (Max Porter), Macfarlane and Donwood create a modern myth about Orford Ness, the ten-mile-long shingle spit that lies off the coast of East Anglia, which the British government used for decades to conduct secret weapons tests"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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