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The Pinecone (Paperback, Main)
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The Pinecone (Paperback, Main)
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List price R485
Loot Price R440
Discovery Miles 4 400
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The Pinecone is set in the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, where a
masterpiece in Victorian architecture stands - the strangest and
most magical church in England. This vivid, original book tells the
story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate, an
architect and an intellectual who dumbfounded critics with her
genius and originality. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress
to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a
love of the past. The church is Losh's masterpiece, richly
decorated with symbolic carvings there are images of ammonites,
scarabs and poppies, and everywhere there are pinecones, her
signature in stone. The church is a dramatic rendering of the power
of myth and the great natural cycles of life and death and rebirth.
The Pinecone is also the story of Sarah's radical family, friends
of Wordsworth and Coleridge; of the love between sisters and the
life of a village; of the struggle of the weavers, the coming of
the railways, the findings of geology and the fate of a young
northern soldier in the Afghan war. Above all, though, it is about
the joy of making and the skill of local, unsung craftsmen.
Award-winning Jenny Uglow (author of The Lunar Men, Nature's
Engraver and In These Times) crafts this moving story of a
beautiful and ornate church, a pioneering and imaginative woman,
and the changing life of a small northern village in the face of
the Industrial Revolution.
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