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Strands Jean Sprackland

Strands von Jean Sprackland

Strands Jean Sprackland


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Zusammenfassung

Presenting a series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, this title tells about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation - about sea-change.

Strands Zusammenfassung

Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach Jean Sprackland

This is the ultimate beachcomber's book. A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, Strands is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation - about sea-change.

Every so often the sands shift enough to reveal great mysteries: the Star of Hope, wrecked on Mad Wharf in 1883 and usually just visible as a few wooden stumps, is suddenly raised one day, up from the depths - an entire wreck, black and barnacled, and on either side two more ruined ships, taking the air for a while before sinking back under the sand.

And stranger still, perhaps, are the prehistoric footprints of humans, animals and birds on the beach: prints from the Late Mesolithic to mid-Neolithic period which are described as 'ephemeral archaeology' because they are preserved in the Holocene sediment, revealed briefly and then destroyed by the next tide.

Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. Jean Sprackland, a prize-winning poet and natural storyteller, is the perfect guide to these shifting sands - this place of transformation.

Strands Bewertungen

A fine book... Transparent, undeceived prose -- Kate Kellaway * Guardian *
Elegant memoir... For those for whom such encounters are a rare occurrence, reading this beautiful book is only a tide's whisper away from being on a beach itself and feeling the wind in your hair and the sand between your toes. * The Economist *
Compelling...well-contextualised, sharply-observed, clued up, environmentally aware and deeply researched... She writes a supple, attractive, gently ironic prose that brings alive this distinctive shoreline. * Independent *
Each sentence is as cunningly crafted as a piece of driftwood, a lyrical tribute to the meeting place of land and sea. -- Mary Crockett * Scotland on Sunday *
Sprackland's clean and unfussy prose, her powerful sense of atmosphere, gradually draw you in. If a book can have the appeal of a really good long walk, this one does. -- Marcus Berkmann * Daily Mail *

Über Jean Sprackland

Jean Sprackland is the author of five previous poetry collections, including Tilt, which won the 2007 Costa Poetry Award. She has also published a book of non-fiction, Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach, which won the 2012 Portico Prize. She lives in London.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR003704933
9780224087452
0224087452
Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach Jean Sprackland
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Vintage Publishing
20120531
256
Winner of Portico Prize for Literature: Non-fiction 2012
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