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Scarp (Paperback)
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Scarp (Paperback)
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List price R341
Loot Price R278
Discovery Miles 2 780
You Save R63 (18%)
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AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR An extraordinary book by a man with
a unique and inspiring perspective, SCARP will change the way you
view the places and spaces around you, and reveal a forgotten
London you never knew existed. Nick Papadimitriou has spent a
lifetime living on the margins, walking and documenting the
landscapes surrounding his home in Child's Hill, North London, in a
study he calls Deep Topography. Part meditation on nature and
walking, part memoir and part social history, his arresting debut
is first and foremost a personal inquiry into the spirit of a
place: a 14-mile broken ridge of land on the fringes of Northern
London known as Scarp. Conspicuous but largely forgotten, a vast
yet largely invisible presence hovering just beyond the metropolis,
Scarp is a vast storehouse of regional memory. We join the author
as he explores and reimagines this brooding, pregnant landscape,
meticulously observing his surroundings, finding surprising
connections and revealing lost slices of the past. SCARP captures
the satisfying experience of a long, reflective walk. Whether
talking about the beauty of a bird or a telegraph pole, deaths at a
roundabout or his own troubled past, Papadimitriou celebrates the
poetry in the everyday. His captivating prose reveals that the
world around us is alive and intrinsically valuable in ways that
the trappings of day-to-day life lead us to forget, and allows us
to re-connect with something more authentic, more immediate, more
profound.
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