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Acclaimed essayist
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Alaskan archeology
Alaskan landscapes
Archeology
Author of Among Muslims
Author of Findings
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Children leaving home
Collection of essays
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Costa-award winner
Death of a father
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Flight of an eagle
Kathleen Jamie
Landscapes
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Links of Noltland
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019
Memories of grandparents
National treasure Scotland
Nature writing
Neolithic finds
One of Scotland's finest poets
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Paleolithic way of life
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Quinhagak
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Scotland
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Scottish Islands
Scottish landscapes
Scottish poet
Scottish words
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Travel writer
Travels to China
Travels to Tibet
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Women authors and poets
Product details
- ISBN 9781908745828
- Weight: 294g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2020
- Publisher: Sort of Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Multi-award winning poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. She has written three works of non-fiction: Among Muslims (2002), an acclaimed travel narrative; and two ground-breaking collections of nature and travel writing, Findings (2005) and Sightlines (2012). She lives in Fife and is a Professor of Creative Writing at Stirling University.
