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Forecast - A Diary of the Lost Seasons (Paperback)
Loot Price: R273
Discovery Miles 2 730
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Forecast - A Diary of the Lost Seasons (Paperback)
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Loot Price R273
Discovery Miles 2 730
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Join Joe Shute as he travels across Britain tracing the history of
our seasons and discovering how they are changing. We talk about
them. We plan our lives around them. The changing seasons are part
of us all. But what happens when the weather changes beyond
recognition? Joe Shute has spent years unpicking Britain’s love
affair with the weather, poring over the centuries of folklore,
customs and rituals our seasons have inspired. But in recent years
Shute has noticed a curious thing: the British seasons are changing
far faster and far more profoundly than we realise. Daffodils in
December, frogspawn in November, swallows that no longer fly home,
floods, wildfires and winters without snow. Nothing is behaving as
it should, sending nature into an increasing state of flux. In
Forecast, Shute travels all over Britain tracing the history of the
seasons, and discovering the extent to which we are now growing
disconnected from them. While documenting these warped rhythms
caused by the changing weather, he records the parallels in his
personal journey as he and his wife struggle to conceive a child.
This is a book that races to keep up with the march of the seasons
as they rapidly change course. It examines how the weather is
reshaping the world around us, and asks what happens to centuries
of culture, memory and identity when the very thing they subsist on
is slipping away.
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