Rising Ground by Philip Marsden
Why do we react so strongly to certain places? Why do layers of mythology build up around particular features in the landscape? When Philip Marsden moved to a remote creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to begin exploring these questions, prompting a journey westwards to Land's End through one of the most fascinating regions of Europe. From the Neolithic ritual landscape of Bodmin Moor to the Arthurian traditions of Tintagel, from the mysterious china-clay country to the granite tors and tombs of the far south-west, Marsden assembles a chronology of our shifting attitudes to place. In archives, he uncovers the life and work of other 'topophiles' before him - medieval chroniclers and Tudor topographers, eighteenth-century antiquarians, post-industrial poets and abstract painters. Drawing also on his own travels overseas, Marsden reveals that the shape of the land lies not just at the heart of our history but of man's perennial struggle to belong on this earth.
PHILIP MARSDEN is the award-winning author of a number of works of travel, fiction and non-fiction, including The Bronski House, The Spirit-Wrestlers, and The Levelling Sea. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and his work has been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Cornwall.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847086280 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847086284 |
| Title | Rising Ground |
| Author | Philip Marsden |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2014-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Wainwright Prize for Nature and Travel Writing 2015 (UK), Short-listed for Stanford-Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2015 (UK) |
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