Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the
shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually
exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by
boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost not
yet, perhaps, but soon to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This
Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land
and water; over sea walls of dried grass, beside stretched fields
of golden crops, alongside white sails gliding across the intricate
lacework of invisible creeks and estuaries, under vast skies that
are home to curlews and redshanks and the outpourings of
skylarks.
East Anglia's coastline is as much a human landscape as it is a
natural one, and Pretty is equally perceptive about the region's
cultural heritage and its "industrial wild": fishing villages and
the modern seaside resorts, family farms and oil refineries,
pleasure piers and concrete seawalls, cozy pubs and military
installations. Through words and photographs, Pretty interweaves
stories of the land and sea with people past and present. He is a
passionate and sensitive guide to a region in transition, under
stress, and perhaps even doomed, as finely attuned to its history
as he is to its unique sensory world."
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