This Luminous Coast: Walking England's Eastern Edge by Jules Pretty (English) Pa

Description: This Luminous Coast by Jules Pretty Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England and here takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost-not yet, perhaps, but soon-to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water; over sea walls of dried grass, beside stretched fields of golden crops, alongside white sails gliding across the intricate lacework of invisible creeks and estuaries, under vast skies that are home to curlews and redshanks and the outpourings of skylarks. East Anglias coastline is as much a human landscape as it is a natural one, and Pretty is equally perceptive about the regions cultural heritage and its "industrial wild": fishing villages and the modern seaside resorts, family farms and oil refineries, pleasure piers and concrete seawalls, cozy pubs and military installations. Through words and photographs, Pretty interweaves stories of the land and sea with people past and present.He is a passionate and sensitive guide to a region in transition, under stress, and perhaps even doomed, as finely attuned to its history as he is to its unique sensory world. Author Biography Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex. He is the author of many books, including The Edge of Extinction and This Luminous Coast, both from Cornell, and The Earth Only Endures. He is coeditor most recently of Green Exercise. Table of Contents Preface: A Year on the Coast 1. There Be Monsters 2. The Great Tide 3. Down by the Sea 4. Food & Fowl 5. Wild Archipelago 6. Wild by Industrial 7. Artery &Estuary 8. Strongholds 9. Shingle Shore 10. Erosion & Memory 11. Barrier Coast 12. Mud Cliff & Marsh 13. Sandhills Coda Notes Bibliography Review "This Luminous Coast is part travel guide, part memoir, part meditation, part elegy. Although it is occasioned by a sense of urgency, it never preaches; nor does the author claim any privileged knowledge, despite the wealth of information that he discreetly imparts. It doesnt demand our response, or even insist that we follow up the authors findings. However, if we let it do its work, we will be subtly changed."-Times Higher Education Supplement "Illustrated with the authors own photographs, This Luminous Coast is an elegiac meditation on a constantly changing landscape."-Financial Times Prizes Winner of *Winner, East Anglian Book of the Year Award -. Long Description Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost--not yet, perhaps, but soon--to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water; over sea walls of dried grass, beside stretched fields of golden crops, alongside white sails gliding across the intricate lacework of invisible creeks and estuaries, under vast skies that are home to curlews and redshanks and the outpourings of skylarks. East Anglias coastline is as much a human landscape as it is a natural one, and Pretty is equally perceptive about the regions cultural heritage and its "industrial wild": fishing villages and the modern seaside resorts, family farms and oil refineries, pleasure piers and concrete seawalls, cozy pubs and military installations. Through words and photographs, Pretty interweaves stories of the land and sea with people past and present. He is a passionate and sensitive guide to a region in transition, under stress, and perhaps even doomed, as finely attuned to its history as he is to its unique sensory world. Review Quote "This Luminous Coast is part travel guide, part memoir, part meditation, part elegy. Although it is occasioned by a sense of urgency, it never preaches; nor does the author claim any privileged knowledge, despite the wealth of information that he discreetly imparts. It doesnt demand our response, or even insist that we follow up the authors findings. However, if we let it do its work, we will be subtly changed."-Times Higher Education Supplement Details ISBN0801456517 Author Jules Pretty Short Title THIS LUMINOUS COAST Pages 272 Language English ISBN-10 0801456517 ISBN-13 9780801456510 Media Book Format Paperback Affiliation University of Essex Year 2014 Imprint Comstock Publishing Associates Subtitle Walking Englands Eastern Edge Place of Publication Ithaca Country of Publication United States Qualifications OBE Publication Date 2014-10-17 UK Release Date 2014-10-17 AU Release Date 2014-10-17 NZ Release Date 2014-10-17 US Release Date 2014-10-17 Publisher Cornell University Press Alternative 9780801455315 DEWEY 942.6 Illustrations 63 Halftones, black and white Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:92935378;

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