Sightlines [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Kathleen Jamie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 095630866X ISBN 13: 9780956308665

Casa editrice: Sort of Books, 2012

Riassunto

The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - what is it that we're just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn seas. Her gaze swoops vertiginously too; from a countryside of cells beneath a hospital microscope, to killer whales rounding a headland, to the constellations of satellites that belie our sense of the remote. Written with her hallmark precision and delicacy, and marked by moments in her own life, Sightlines offers a rare invitation to pause and to pay heed to our surroundings.

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Recensione:

'Immensely beguiling' --Sunday Times

'Exquisite essays' --Scotsman

'The whole book is an experiment in honesty' --Saturday Telegraph

'A work of intense purity and quiet genius, and we're lucky to have it' -- Sunday Telegraph

'I put the book down again and thought: 'I wonder if I would actually kill to be able to write, or think, like that.' It's like this pretty much all the way through.'
--Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian

'A lyrical work of profound insight' --Kirkus Reviews

Descrizione del libro:

Five years after Findings broke the mould of nature writing, Sort of Books presents Sightlines - Now a Radio 4 Book of the Week, starting on 23rd April

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• Editore: Sort of Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 095630866X
• ISBN 13: 9780956308665
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208