Surfacing
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Collective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book Prize
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'.
For this luminous new essay collection, acclaimed author Kathleen Jamie visits archaeological 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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Collective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book Prize
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'.
For this luminous new essay collection, acclaimed author Kathleen Jamie visits archaeological 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.
9781908745828
Kathleen Jamie; Scottish poet; Scottish author; Acclaimed essayist; Scotland; Collection of essays; Women authors and poets; Nature writing; pioneer nature writer; Travel writer; Author of Findings; Author of Sightlines; Author of Among Muslims; National treasure Scotland; One of Scotland's finest poets; Archeology; Costa-award winner; Quinhagak; Alaskan archeology; Neolithic finds; Paleolithic way of life; Travels to Tibet; Travels to China; Memories of grandparents; Scottish words; Praised by John Berger; Review by Diana Athill; Review by Mark Cocker; Review by Richard Mabey; Links of Noltland; Westray Wife; Children leaving home; Death of a father; Bird watching; Flight of an eagle; Birds and nature; Landscapes; Scottish landscapes; Alaskan landscapes; perfect Christmas Gift; Scottish Islands; Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019
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