Rain: Four Walks in English Weather Contributor(s): Harrison, Melissa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0571328946 ISBN-13: 9780571328949 Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Travel | Europe - Great Britain - Travel | Special Interest - Hikes & Walks - Science | Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" L (0.40 lbs) 128 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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Publisher Description: An evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison. Whenever rain falls, the English countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows appear altered, the wildlife behaves differently, and over time the terrain itself is transformed. In Rain, Melissa Harrison follows the course of four rain showers, in four seasons, across Wicken Fen, Shropshire, the Darent Valley and Dartmoor. Blending these expeditions with reading, research and memory, she shows that rain is part and parcel of the English identity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Harrison, Melissa: - Melissa Harrison writes a monthly Nature Notebook column in The Times. Her debut novel Clay (2013) won the Portsmouth First Fiction Award and was chosen by Ali Smith as a Book of the Year. Her second, At Hawthorn Time, was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award. It was one of A. S. Byatt's Summer Reads in the Observer, and a Book of the Year for 2015 in the Telegraph. She lives in south London. |
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