Common Ground

Rob Cowen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2015
Hutchinson (Verlag)
978-0-09-195455-0 (ISBN)

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leading us into a whole new way of looking at the world' Michael Palin'Absolutely mesmerizing, utterly beautiful and engrossing' Joanne HarrisAfter moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in unfamiliar territory.

Shortlisted for the 2015 Portico Prize for Non-Fiction

'Sensitive, thoughtful and poetic ... leading us into a whole new way of looking at the world' Michael Palin

'Absolutely mesmerizing, utterly beautiful and engrossing' Joanne Harris

After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in unfamiliar territory. Disoriented, hemmed in by winter and yearning for open space, he ventures out to a nearby edge-land: a pylon-slung tangle of wood, hedge, field, meadow and river that lies unclaimed and overlooked on the outskirts of town.

Digging deeper into this lost landscape, he begins to uncover its many layers and lives – beast, bird, insect, plant and people – in kaleidoscopic detail. As the seasons change and the birth of his child draws closer, his transformative journey into the blurry space where human and nature meet becomes increasingly profound. In bringing this edge-land to life, Cowen offers both a both a unique portrait of people and place through time and an unforgettable exploration of the common ground we share with the natural world, the past and each other.

Rob Cowen is an award-winning journalist and writer who has authored regular columns on nature and travel for the Independent, Independent on Sunday and the Telegraph. Described by the Guardian as `one of the UK’s most exciting nature writers’ he previously received the Roger Deakin Award from the Society of Authors for his first book Skimming Stones and Other Ways of Being in the Wild (2012). He lives in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.5.2015
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	144 x 223 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
ISBN-10	0-09-195455-X / 009195455X
ISBN-13	978-0-09-195455-0 / 9780091954550
Zustand	Neuware