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The Accidental Detectorist - Uncovering an Underground Obsession (Hardcover)
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The Accidental Detectorist - Uncovering an Underground Obsession (Hardcover)
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'Richardson writes beautifully about his return to the land, about
listening to the soil and about understanding the ancient world.' -
The Spectator Each new field is hope, each old one reality. There
are things below the surface that pull people together in a shared
love of history, landscape and the hope that, this time, something
incredible will be unearthed. When a travel writer is stuck on home
soil in the middle of a pandemic he tries his hand at metal
detecting - and is instantly addicted. This all-consuming hobby
takes him around the country, back through history and deep into
the psyches(his own included) of those hooked on 'happy bleeps'.
The Accidental Detectorist is a big-hearted dig into a pastime
sometimes mocked but always enticing. *** When locked-down travel
writer Nigel Richardson is looking for a travel story close to his
country cottage he turns to a leading metal detectorist with an
infectious passion for the hobby. Before he knows it the mysteries
of the fields are leading him on, into a world that casts the
history of these isles and its people in an intriguing new light.
Sifting Britain's soil from Portsmouth to Edinburgh, Nigel yearns
to lose his detectorist's virginity by finding a 'hammered' coin -
while learning that the search for treasure comes with a serious
responsibility to our common heritage. As he immerses himself
further in the world of metal detecting, exposing the shady
activities of 'nighthawks', attending rallies and making lifelong
friends, a change comes over him. This country beneath his feet,
these people who scour it for clues and tokens - they are the home
he's been looking for.
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