William Atkins

Broschiertes Buch

The Moor

A journey into the English wilderness

Beschreibung

Shortlisted for the 2015 Wainwright Prize In this journey across England's most forbidding and mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, exploring moorland's uniquely captivating position in our history, literature and psyche.

Autor

William Atkins

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780571290055
• ISBN-10: 0571290051
• Artikelnr.: 41596756

Rezensionen

An ambitious mix of history, topography, literary criticism and nature writing, in the tradition of WG Sebald, Robert MacFarlane and Olivia Laing . . . One of the strengths of Atkins's book is its resistance to the obvious. Blake Morrison Guardian Book of the Week