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Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains
Barbara Hurd
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Description for Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains
Hardcover. Contains writing on beaches of several locations. Each chapter of this book starts with attention to an object - a shell fragment of a pelican egg, or perhaps a jellyfish - and then widens into larger concerns: the persistence of habits, desire, disappointments, the lie of the perfectly preserved, the pleasures of aversions, and, transformations. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295.
This book contains evocative nature writing in the tradition of Terry Tempest Williams and Gretel Ehrlich. Barbara Hurd continues to give nature writing a human dimension in this final volume of her trilogy that began with ""Stirring the Mud"" and ""Entering the Stone"". With prose both eloquent and wise, she examines what washes ashore, from the angel wing shells to broken oars. Even a merman appears in this brilliant collection that throws light on the mysterious and the overlooked.Writing from beaches as far-flung as Morocco, St. Croix, or Alaska, and as familiar as California and Cape Cod, she helps us ... Read more
This book contains evocative nature writing in the tradition of Terry Tempest Williams and Gretel Ehrlich. Barbara Hurd continues to give nature writing a human dimension in this final volume of her trilogy that began with ""Stirring the Mud"" and ""Entering the Stone"". With prose both eloquent and wise, she examines what washes ashore, from the angel wing shells to broken oars. Even a merman appears in this brilliant collection that throws light on the mysterious and the overlooked.Writing from beaches as far-flung as Morocco, St. Croix, or Alaska, and as familiar as California and Cape Cod, she helps us ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820331027
SKU
V9780820331027
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