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Four Fields - Softcover

Dee, Tim

 
9781619026216: Four Fields
Softcover
ISBN 10: 161902621X ISBN 13: 9781619026216
Verlag: COUNTERPOINT PR, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

In this book, Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields spread around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their skies, and both their natural and human histories. These four fields--walkable, mappable, man-made, mowable, knowable, but also secretive, mysterious, wild, contested, and changing--play central roles in the sweeping panorama of world history and in the lives of individuals. In Dee's telling, a field is never just a setting for great battles or natural disasters, though it is often this as well. A field is the oldest and simplest and truest measure of what a man needs in life, especially when looked at, contemplated, worked in, lived with, and written about.


Dee's four fields, which he has known and studied for more than twenty years, are the fen field at the bottom of his private garden, a field in southern Zambia, a prairie in Little Bighorn, Montana, and a grass meadow in the Exclusion Zone at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Meditating on these four fields, Dee makes us look anew at where we live and how. He argues that we must attend to what we have made of the wild.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Dee was born in Liverpool in 1961. He has worked as a BBC radio producer for more than twenty years and divides his life between Bristol and Cambridge. His first book, The Running Sky: A Birdwatching Life, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2009.

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Verlag
COUNTERPOINT PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
161902621X
ISBN 13 
9781619026216
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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