Sheer cliffs,salt spray,explosive sea spume,thunderous clouds,icy waves,whales with mountains on their backs,sleet,bitter winds,bleak,impenetrable marshes,howling wolves,forests,the unceasing cries of birds and the death grip of subterranean vaults that have never seen the sun: these are wild landscapes of a world almost familiar.
In Wild,Amy Jeffs journeys - on foot and through medieval texts - from landscapes of desolation to hope,offering the reader an insight into a world at once distant and profoundly close to home. The seven chapters,entitled Earth,Fen,Forest,Beast,Ocean,Catastrophe,Paradise,open with fiction and close with reflection. They blend reflections of travels through fen,forest and cave,with retelling of medieval texts that offer rich depictions of the natural world,from the Old English elegies,the Welsh Englynion,the Norse poetic Edda - stories that largely represent figures whose voices are not generally heard in the corpus of medieval literature: women,outcasts,animals.
Illustrated with original wood engravings,evoking an atmospheric world of whales,wolves,caves,cuckoos and reeds,Wildwill leave readers feeling'westendream': delight in the wilderness.
Publisher: Quercus PublishingISBN: 9781529424263Number of pages: 240Weight: 260 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 28 mm
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Praise for Amy Jeffs:
'A beautiful retelling of British myths and exquisitely illustrated too.'- James Holland
'This gorgeous book should live on the bookshelves in every house that cares about "the idea of Britain,what is was and where it came from.'- The Times
Amy Jeffs
Amy Jeffs is an art historian and print maker and the author of the critically acclaimed history of British folklore,Storyland.
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