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Walking the Wrack Line - On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (Hardcover)
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Walking the Wrack Line - On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (Hardcover)
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List price R642
Loot Price R546
Discovery Miles 5 460
You Save R96 (15%)
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This book contains evocative nature writing in the tradition of
Terry Tempest Williams and Gretel Ehrlich. Barbara Hurd continues
to give nature writing a human dimension in this final volume of
her trilogy that began with ""Stirring the Mud"" and ""Entering the
Stone"". With prose both eloquent and wise, she examines what
washes ashore, from the angel wing shells to broken oars. Even a
merman appears in this brilliant collection that throws light on
the mysterious and the overlooked.Writing from beaches as far-flung
as Morocco, St. Croix, or Alaska, and as familiar as California and
Cape Cod, she helps us see beauty in the gruesome feeding process
of the moon snail. She holds up an encrusted, still-sealed message
bottle to make tangible the emotional divide between mother and
daughter. She considers a chunk of sea glass and the possibilities
of transformation.The book began on a beach, Hurd says, ""with the
realization that a lot of what I care about survives in spite of -
perhaps because of - having been broken or lost for a while in
backward drift. Picking up egg cases, stones, shells, I kept
turning them over - in my hands and in my mind."" Each chapter
starts with close attention to an object - a shell fragment of a
pelican egg, or perhaps a jellyfish - but then widens into larger
concerns: the persistence of habits, desire, disappointments, the
lie of the perfectly preserved, the pleasures of aversions,
transformations, and a phenomenon from physics known as the strange
attractor.
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