{"product_id":"ground-work-2","title":"Ground Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe essential and defining new collection of the best British nature writing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Tim Dee has brought together a wonderous array of talent for this life-affirming, often magical anthology’ \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are living in the anthropocene – an epoch where everything is being determined by the activities of just one soft-skinned, warm-blooded, short-lived, pedestrian species. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow do we make our way through the ruins that we have made? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis anthology tries to answer this as it explores new and enduring cultural landscapes, in a celebration of local distinctiveness that includes new work from some of our finest writers. We have memories of childhood homes from \u003cb\u003eAdam Thorpe\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eMarina Warner\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eSean O’Brien\u003c\/b\u003e; we journey with\u003cb\u003e John Burnside\u003c\/b\u003e to the Arizona desert, with \u003cb\u003eHugh Brody\u003c\/b\u003e to the Canadian Arctic; going from \u003cb\u003eTessa Hadley’s\u003c\/b\u003e hymn to her London garden to caving in the Mendips with \u003cb\u003eSean Borodale\u003c\/b\u003e to shell-collecting on a Suffolk beach with \u003cb\u003eJulia Blackburn\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelen Macdonald\u003c\/b\u003e, in her remarkable piece on growing up in a 50-acre walled estate, reflects on our failed stewardship of the planet: ‘I take stock.’ she says, ‘During this sixth extinction, we who may not have time to do anything else must write now what we can, to take stock.’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is an important, necessary book.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54250657251672,"sku":"9781784703462","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ground-work-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}