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To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing (Hardcover, 2011)

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To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week, over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.Along the way, Laing explores the roles rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature and mythology alike. To the River excavates all sorts of stories from the Ouse's marshy banks, from the brutal Barons' War of the thirteenth century to the 'Dinosaur Hunters', the nineteenth-century amateur naturalists who first cracked the fossil code. Central among these ghosts is, of course, Virginia Woolf herself: her life, her writing and her watery death.Woolf is the most constant companion on Laing's journey. But other writers float through these pages too - among them Iris Murdoch, Shakespeare, Homer and Kenneth Grahame, author of the riverside classic The Wind in the Willows.The result is a wonderfully discursive read - which interweaves biography, history, nature writing and memoir, driven by Laing's deep understanding of science and cultural history. It's a beautiful, lyrical work that marks the arrival of a major new writer.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Canongate Books LTD
ISBN-13
9781847677921
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99917612

Product Key Features

Book Title
To the River: a Journey Beneath the Surface
Author
Olivia Laing
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Nature
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
304 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
220mm
Item Width
143mm
Item Weight
442g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Olivia Laing
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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