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Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape

Fiona Stafford

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Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & , Literature, History, Natural history

A unique and luminous exploration of the changing landscapes of the UK, the long-awaited new book from the author of the hugely acclaimed The Long, Long Life of Trees

'Poetic and profound, Time and Tide is wise, considered and full of surprises' Observer

'Poignant and touching' Mail on Sunday

'Miraculous' Scotsman

A village waits at the bottom of a reservoir. A monkey puzzle tree bristles in a suburban garden. A skein of wild geese fly over a rusty rail viaduct. The vast inland sea that awed John Clare has become fields.

Chapter by fascinating chapter, alive with literary, local, and her own family history, Fiona Stafford reveals the forces, both natural and human, which transform places. Swooping along coastlines, through forests and across fens, following in the footsteps of Burns and Keats, Celia Fiennes and Charles Dickens, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Noel Coward and Compton Mackenzie, join her, time-travelling deep into the stories of our Isles.

From red squirrels to brick vistas, from botanical gardens to hot springs, the landscapes of Britain are full of delights and surprises. Chance discoveries of rare species, shipwrecks and unlikely ruins, curious trees and startling towers, weird caves and disused airfields, or even just baffling placenames offer ways into unexpected histories and hidden lives. The clues to the past are all round us - Time and Tide will help you find them.

'Shot through with tender delights and unexpected revelations' RICHARD HOLMES

'Wonderful . . . A fascinating compendium of people and places' PHILIP MARSDEN

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Praise for Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape

  • In this evocative exploration of the landscapes of Britain, Stafford reveals a principle to discovering its delights. 'It is always worth pausing to see what might be there,' she writes. 'Before it hops away soundlessly into the shadows of the forest, or washes out to sea.' Poetic and profound, Time and Tide is wise, considered and full of surprises - Observer

  • A fascinating book to be enjoyed in front of a cosy fire whiling away a rainy Sunday afternoon . . . taking in as it does Fingal's Cave, the drowned village of Capel Celyn in Wales, the Hebridean island of Barra, which inspired Whisky Galore, to the place where the first monkey puzzle tree was so named (Pencarrow in Cornwall) and even the wreck of the Spanish Armada off Streedagh in Sligo. You feel that you are there with Stafford, tramping across fens, buf feted by waves along rugged coastlines or peering down iron mines to see the red ochre. Both literary and erudite . . . poignant and touching . . . Time and Tide is often very funny - Mail on Sunday

  • A highly rewarding book studded with curiosities, surprises and exhilarating insights - Literary Review

  • An engrossing tour of our North Atlantic archipelago, Stafford has a historical X-ray vision which allows her to look through the surface of a given landscape and describe what lies beneath . . . Miraculous . . . If landscape writing is evolving, this book is a good indication of where it's going next - Scotsman

  • Buzzing with surprising connections and brilliant cross-references. Shot through with tender delights and unexpected revelations . . . The equivalent of taking a series of refreshing walks

  • Wonderful . . . Fiona Stafford unpeels layers and layers of Britain's landscape to reveal the stories within. A fascinating compendium of people and places and how they endlessly interact to change each other

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