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Surfacing (Hardcover)
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Surfacing (Hardcover)
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List price R406
Loot Price R335
Discovery Miles 3 350
You Save R71 (17%)
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Under the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from
the thawing tundra linking a Yup’ik village to its hunter-gatherer
past. In the shifting sand dunes of a Scottish shoreline, impressively
preserved hearths and homes of Neolithic farmers are uncovered. In a
grandmother’s disordered mind, memories surface of a long-ago mining
accident and a ‘mither who was kind’.
In this luminous new essay collection, acclaimed author Kathleen Jamie
visits archeological sites and mines her own memories – of her
grandparents, of youthful travels – to explore what surfaces and what
reconnects us to our past. As always she looks to the natural world for
her markers and guides. Most movingly, she considers, as her father
dies and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less
tethered sense of herself.
Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to
all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted.
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