Bibliograph

Surfacing, Kathleen Jamie

Type

Label

Surfacing, Kathleen Jamie

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Surfacing

Oclc number

1083708156

Responsibility statement

Kathleen Jamie

Summary

"A new collection of essays exploring the nature of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning author of Sightlines"--, Provided by publisher"In this remarkable collection, part travelogue, part cultural and personal history, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the impressiely preserved homes of neolithic farmers in Scotland, Jamie explores how the changing natural world can alter our sense of time. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself. In precise, luminous prose, Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted" --, From Amazon

Table Of Contents

Reindeer Cave -- A Reflection -- In Quinhagak -- The Eagle -- Links of Noltland -- The Inevitable Pagoda -- Surfacing -- From the Window -- A Tibetan Dog -- The Wind Horse -- Elders -- Voice of the Wood

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