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Strands : A Year of Discoveries on the Beach Hardcover Jean Sprac
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- Publication Name
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- 9780224087452
- Publication Year
- 2012
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Strands: a Year of Discoveries on the Beach
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- 223mm
- Publisher
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- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Item Width
- 143mm
- Item Weight
- 441g
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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This is the ultimate beachcomber's book. A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, Strands is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation - about sea-change. Every so often the sands shift enough to reveal great mysteries- the Star of Hope, wrecked on Mad Wharf in 1883 and usually just visible as a few wooden stumps, is suddenly raised one day, up from the depths - an entire wreck, black and barnacled, and on either side two more ruined ships, taking the air for a while before sinking back under the sand. And stranger still, perhaps, are the prehistoric footprints of humans, animals and birds on the beach- prints from the Late Mesolithic to mid-Neolithic period which are described as 'ephemeral archaeology' because they are preserved in the Holocene sediment, revealed briefly and then destroyed by the next tide. Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach- inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations- mermaid's purses, lugworms,
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Strands: a Year of Discoveries on the Beach
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Hardcover
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English
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
256 Pages
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223mm
Item Width
143mm
Item Weight
441g
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