Time and Tide
The Long, Long Life of Landscape
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Time and Tide
Narrated by:
Anna Cordell
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Narrated by:
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Anna Cordell
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Fiona Stafford
About this listen
'Poignant and touching' Mail on Sunday
'Miraculous' Scotsman
A village waits at the bottom of a reservoir. A monkey puzzle tree bristles in a suburban garden. A skein of wild geese fly over a rusty rail viaduct. The vast inland sea that awed John Clare has become fields.
Chapter by fascinating chapter, alive with literary, local, and her own family history, Fiona Stafford reveals the forces, both natural and human, which transform places. Swooping along coastlines, through forests and across fens, following in the footsteps of Burns and Keats, Celia Fiennes and Charles Dickens, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Noel Coward and Compton Mackenzie, join her, time-travelling deep into the stories of our Isles.
From red squirrels to brick vistas, from botanical gardens to hot springs, the landscapes of Britain are full of delights and surprises. Chance discoveries of rare species, shipwrecks and unlikely ruins, curious trees and startling towers, weird caves and disused airfields, or even just baffling placenames offer ways into unexpected histories and hidden lives. The clues to the past are all round us - Time and Tide will help you find them.
'Shot through with tender delights and unexpected revelations' RICHARD HOLMES
'Wonderful . . . A fascinating compendium of people and places' PHILIP MARSDEN©2024 Fiona Stafford (P)2024 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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I particularly enjoyed the personal touches and family memories of the author who could quite possibly be sitting across the room chatting about her observations.
Evocative and fascinating
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Fiona writes intelligently and with feeling, she must be a kind and sensitive woman with a bright imagination that gives her words so much life. I must now read The long life of trees and the short life of plants -both by her.
This will stay with me for a long time.
Her parents and aunt would be very proud of her, she evokes them with such warmth and pride. It was an excellent opening to focus on her mother painting their door bright red in the post war years long before Fiona was born. Her husband and children must also be proud as they are also mentioned. This only helps inform us how genuine and personal her connection is with landscape -she has no doubt encouraged that in them and in her readers
Beautiful and elegantly written and read
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