Strands A Year of Discoveries on the Beach

Name: Strands A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
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ISBN: 9780224087452

ISBN-10: 0224087452

ISBN-13: 9780224087452

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jean Sprackland

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An insightful and lyrical account of a year on one beach -- part natural history, part meditation, part travelogue. A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool,Strandsis a book about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation -- about sea-change. Every so often the sands shift enough to reveal great mysteries: theStar of Hope, wrecked on Mad Wharf in 1883 and usually just visible as a few wooden stumps, is suddenly raised one day, up from the depths -- an entire wreck, black and barnacled, and on…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication date: 5/31/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.78" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English