21st Century
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A01=Robert Macfarlane
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Product details
- ISBN 9781847771551
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 135 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jun 2013
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far north of Scotland. It is a book grounded in the singularity of one place – a house in northern Aberdeenshire – and threaded through with an unshowy commitment to the lost and the forgotten. In these painterly essays Davidson reflects on art, place, history and landscape. Distance and Memory is his testament to the cold, clear beauty of the north.
Peter Davidson was born in Scotland in 1957. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. Peter has edited theClarendon Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe (Vol I, 1998; II, 1999); the Clarendon anthology of seventeenth-century English poetry, Poetry and Revolution(1998), and (with Jane Stevenson)Early Modern Women's Poetry (2001). He has also published numerous articles and studies of the post-reformation culture of British Catholicism, most recently in the monographThe Universal Baroque (Manchester University Press, 2007). The Last of the Light: about twilight was published by Reaktion in 2015. Robert Macfarlane is an acclaimed nature and travel writer. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford and he is now a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His most recent book, The Old Ways, was shortlisted for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize.
