This Luminous Coast

Walking England's Eastern Edge

Jules Pretty (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2014
Comstock Publishing Associates (Verlag)
978-0-8014-5651-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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 Anglia’s coastline is as much a human landscape as it is a natural one, and Pretty is equally perceptive about the region’s 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.

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 (also from Cornell), The Earth Only Endures, Agri-Culture, and Regenerating Agriculture.

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. SandhillsCoda

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Zusatzinfo	63 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 219 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-8014-5651-7 / 0801456517
ISBN-13	978-0-8014-5651-0 / 9780801456510
Zustand	Neuware