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Nemesis, My Friend - Journeys Through the Turning Times (Hardcover)
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Nemesis, My Friend - Journeys Through the Turning Times (Hardcover)
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List price R557
Loot Price R503
Discovery Miles 5 030
You Save R54 (10%)
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This new book of essays from the author of Wild tracks the turning
light of the day and seasons, an almanac of the turning times.
Beginning in night and winter, it moves to dawn and spring, then
noon and summer and finally evening and autumn. Set partly at the
author's home in Wales, the book journeys widely, searching for a
dead father in Prague, listening to the Sky-Grandmothers of Mexican
myth and staying with the people of West Papua who, when they know
they will fall over laughing, lie down first. It asks: what is the
real gift of the misunderstood Goddess Nemesis? Why should flowers
be prescribed as medicine? What do male zebra finches dream of?
Where do the sands of time run fastest, and how is that connected
to the age of anxiety? It explores the dawn chorus; the tradition
of sacred hospitality; dust from the time before the sun even
existed; the twilight time of the trickster and the daily rituals
of morning. In all of these it asks: why does light, through the
hours of the day and the seasons of the year, affect us? Griffiths
concludes this extraordinary collection by deciding that light is
in fact how we think.
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