Doubling Back [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Cracknell, Linda

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ISBN 10: 1908754540 ISBN 13: 9781908754547

Casa editrice: Freight Books, 2014

Riassunto

A fascinating and moving account of walking in the footsteps of others, and a masterwork of travel writing   In 1952, Linda Cracknell's father embarked on a hike through the Swiss Alps. It was the last walk he would ever take. Linda retraces that fateful journey 50 years later, following the trail of the man she barely knew. This collection of walking tales take their theme from that pilgrimage. The walks trace the contours of memories, following friends, writers, and relations along trails across mountains, valleys, and coasts from the Highlands of Scotland to Kenya. Each walk is about the reaffirming of memories, beliefs, and emotions, and especially of the connection that one can have with the past. This book celebrates life, family, friendship, and walking through mountain landscapes richly textured with stories. A masterwork of travel writing in the vein of Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin, this lyrical, poignant book contains stunning landscape descriptions.

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Cracknell wonderfully explores the strange durability of the paths that we make in our lives, in our dreams and after our deaths.

--Robert Macfarlane, author of The Wild Places and The Old Ways

There is not a step taken in this book that does not engage the writer and so the reader. To walk with Linda Cracknell is to explore landscape and memory; both the white page and the fernie brae. It is to be enriched by the compulsions of a lifetime.

--Tom Pow

a winning combination of memoir, travelogue and literary meditation

--Daily Mail

Merits a place of its own in the New Nature Writing canon.

--Stornoway Gazette

With Cracknells writing you dont so much see the landscape as feel it...

--The Scotsman

Like a multi coloured tapestry memory and imagination are beautifully evoked by the varied landscapes where Linda Cracknell walked over a period of eight years. Her book is a joy to read.

--Raja Shehadeh, author of Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

A poignant and passionate memoir of ten journeys on foot; a heartfelt exploration of the mental and physical landscapes that shape our lives.

----Gavin Francis author of True North and Empire Antarctica

Of all the current crop of excellent new Nature Writers Linda Cracknell is probably the most physically present to the reader. These are real walks, walked by a real (and clever) writer; and the interesting things she tells us about feel real to the action of walking. Her writing has an exuberant, intelligent energy that seems to come directly from feet striking ground and shaking up memory. She is even brave and honest enough to tell us about the walks that did not work out as planned. Because of the geographical spread of the walks here, this is not a book to inspire you to do her walks, but to challenge you to enjoy your own walks more. Refreshing, lovely, fun: good walking and good writing.

--Sara Maitland

L'autore:

Linda Cracknell writes short stories, drama for BBC, and creative non-fiction. She was shortlisted for the Scottish First Book Award for her story collection Life Drawing and the Robin Jenkins Literary Award for environmental writing.

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• Editore: Freight Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1908754540
• ISBN 13: 9781908754547
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 268