This Luminous Coast : Walking England's Eastern Edge / Jules Pretty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pretty, Jules, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coasts--England--East Anglia.

Coasts.

Coast changes--England--East Anglia.

Coast changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost-not yet, perhaps, but soon-to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water; over sea walls of dried grass, beside stretched fields of golden crops, alongside white sails gliding across the intricate lacework of invisible creeks and estuaries, under vast skies that are home to curlews and redshanks and the outpourings of skylarks.East Anglia's coastline is as much a human landscape as it is a natural one, and Pretty is equally perceptive about the region's cultural heritage and its "industrial wild": fishing villages and the modern seaside resorts, family farms and oil refineries, pleasure piers and concrete seawalls, cozy pubs and military installations. Through words and photographs, Pretty interweaves stories of the land and sea with people past and present. He is a passionate and sensitive guide to a region in transition, under stress, and perhaps even doomed, as finely attuned to its history as he is to its unique sensory world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: A Year on the Coast

1. There Be Monsters

2. The Great Tide

3. Down by the Sea

4. Food & Fowl

5. Wild Archipelago

6. Wild by Industrial

7. Artery & Estuary

8. Strongholds

9. Shingle Shore

10. Erosion & Memory

11. Barrier Coast

12. Mud Cliff & Marsh

13. Sandhills

Coda

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-270) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780801455315

0801455316

9780801455322

0801455324

OCLC:

1080549378