Ghostways - by Robert MacFarlane & Stanley Donwood & Dan Richards (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A hauntingly beautiful diptych of works inspired by Robert Macfarlane's travels with celebrated collaborators to two eerie corners of England.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In <em>Holloway</em>, a perfect miniature prose-poem (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near the south coast of England, to explore a famed hollowed way--a path used by walkers and riders for so many centuries that it has become worn far down into the soft golden bedrock of the region.</p><p>In <em>Ness</em>, a triumphant libretto of mythic modernism for our poisoned age (Max Porter), Macfarlane and Donwood create a modern myth about Orford Ness, the ten-mile-long shingle spit that lies off the coast of East Anglia, which the British government used for decades to conduct secret weapons tests.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[A]n almost-too-fitting natural history for [2020]...<em>Ghostways</em> is designed to evoke more than inform, and often echoes what you bring to it...--Genevieve Valentine "NPR"<br><br>A lovely evocation of some 'spectral and unreal' elements of the British landscape.-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"<br><br>A strangely lovely book...Contemplative, impressionistic and suffused with aspects of the mythic, these pieces operate at times like prose poems....--David L. Ulin "Los Angeles Times"<br><br>These stories convey [Macfarlane's] talent for elevating even modest wonders with sincere attention....Macfarlane approaches the natural world with humility and a deep appreciation for the spirits that haunt a landscape.--Emily Borrow "Wall Street Journal"<br>
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