Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
The Circling Sky de Neil Ansell

The Circling Sky

Autor Neil Ansell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 apr 2021

Descoperim în The Circling Sky o incursiune fascinantă în ecosistemul pădurii New Forest, structurată sub forma unui jurnal de observație ce acoperă parcursul unui an întreg. Neil Ansell nu se limitează la o simplă descriere a florei și faunei; el construiește o meditație profundă despre relația omului cu mediul înconjurător și conceptul de „acasă”. Considerăm că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea autorului de a transforma detalii aparent banale — precum apele leneșe ale râului Beaulieu sau albul dens al florilor de porumbar — în momente de o frumusețe aproape tactilă. Abordarea sa amintește de A Year in the Woods de Colin Elford prin perspectiva intimă asupra vieții forestiere, dar adaugă o componentă de memorie personală mult mai pronunțată, explorând rădăcinile istorice și sociale ale peisajului. În contextul operei sale anterioare, dacă în Deep Country autorul analiza izolarea totală în munții Țării Galilor, aici Neil Ansell caută apartenența într-un spațiu marcat de prezența umană, dar încă vibrant de sălbăticie. Stilul său este cel al unui narator prietenos, care nu predă lecții de biologie, ci invită cititorul să privească mai atent. Ritmul lecturii oglindește mersul la pas prin pădure, oferind o experiență imersivă care completează perfect peisajul descris în Goshawk Summer de James Aldred, unde New Forest este văzută prin lentila unui cineast.

Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 9759 lei

Preț vechi: 13238 lei
-26%

Puncte Express: 146

Carte indisponibilă temporar


Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Trimite

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472272362
ISBN-10: 1472272366
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 241 x 164 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Headline

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor care dorește să încetinească ritmul cotidian și să redescopere natura prin ochii unui observator experimentat. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei pasionați de „nature writing” și memorii, oferind nu doar informații despre biodiversitatea britanică, ci și o perspectivă liniștitoare asupra modului în care ne putem regăsi echilibrul în mijlocul lumii naturale.

Despre autor

Neil Ansell este un scriitor și jurnalist britanic apreciat pentru explorările sale literare la granița dintre memorie și istorie naturală. Nominalizat la prestigiosul premiu Wainwright, Ansell și-a dedicat o mare parte din viață călătoriilor solitare în zone sălbatice, experiențe care au fundamentat lucrări precum The Last Wilderness sau Deep Country. Opera sa este adesea marcată de teme precum solitudinea, pierderea (inclusiv propria luptă cu pierderea auzului descrisă în The Edge of Silence) și nevoia fundamentală de conectare cu mediul înconjurător. Prin scrierile sale, el a devenit o voce de referință în literatura contemporană dedicată naturii.

Notă biografică

Neil Ansell was an award-winning television journalist with the BBC and a long standing newspaper journalist. He is the author of Deep Country, Deer Island and The Last Wilderness which was shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Golden Beer and Highland Book Prizes. He has two daughters and lives in Brighton.

Descriere scurtă

'I am standing on a little wooden footbridge looking down at the sluggish waters of the Beaulieu River. Further downstream towards the sea, the river is tidal and looks like a proper river; here in its upper reaches it is no more than a stream, winding lazily through the woods, narrow enough that in places a fallen tree is enough to make a natural crossing. Overhanging the banks beside the bridge are blackthorns in peak bloom, so dense with pure white blossom that they look overwhelmed by a sudden snowfall'

Descriere

From a 2018 Wainwright Prize shortlisted author, THE CIRCLING SKY is part childhood memoir, blended with exquisite nature observation, and the story of one man's journey over a year to one of the UK's key natural habitats, the New Forest of Hampshire

Recenzii

'An easy storyteller, with a companionable style. His year in the forest is painterly in its attention to colours...his knowledge of birds is formidable' Herald Magazine
'Every foray Ansell makes into the New Forest yields captivating insights' Saga Magazine

In the form of several journeys, taken over a year, Neil Ansell returns for solitary walks to the New Forest in Hampshire. With beautiful observations of birds, trees, butterflies, insects and landscape, this is also a reflective memoir on childhood, on the history of one of the most ancient and important natural habitats in the United Kingdom, and on the Gypsies who lived there for centuries. It is also part polemic on our collective and individual responsibility for the land and world in which we live, and how we care for it.
'A wonderful guide...this is a delight of nature writing' Choice Magazine
Price/ISBN etc
Ebook and audio logos

A beautiful evocation of life in a forest and a powerful reminder of the interconnected fate of all wild things, including ourselves
Like taking a refreshing and eye-opening walk in the open air with the most interesting, observant and companionable of guides. In The Circling Sky Neil Ansell reveals the remarkableness of the relatively unexotic New Forest, moving deftly from personal reflection to beautiful nature writing, to a crucial, timely argument about the history and importance of common land.
Neil Ansell's series of walks in the New Forest through the course of a year coalesce into a skilful exploration of memory, childhood, and how certain landscapes can become an integral part of your life. Ansell is a gifted naturalist, sensitive, inquisitive, at times justly enraged, invariably joyful. The Circling Sky is a wonderful tribute to a unique and precious place
The Circling Sky reads like a vivid and subtle nature programme for your mind's eye. Its New Forest setting is a world within a world; a fragile Eden with an utterly astonishing cast of birds; a unique harbour to an array of species both familiar and unexpected, and a complex, sometimes dark human history. At times it felt like Danny the Champion of the World had grown up, lived an intriguing life, and was now communicating his subtle life philosophy as he walked among the trees. I finished this book sharing its author's desire to look closer, to "walk in peace", and - as he puts it - to "camp without camping", and simply fall sleep beneath a tree.
'Top-class nature writing. The book is a poetic meditation as well as a forthright argument. Ansell is among my most-admired British nature writers'
Neil Ansell is a wonderful guide...this is a delight of nature writing
Neil Ansell takes us on a thoughtful journey through the fabulous New Forest. He combines evocative description with an accurate naturalist's eye, in the best tradition of modern British nature writing.
His articulate reminiscences and observations on history, wildlife and the changing landscape will make readers reflect on the world around us and our part - individually and collectively - in looking after it
Neil Ansell is a writer of extraordinary sensitivity and insight
An immersive delving into the delights of the New Forest. Neil Ansell writes with such warmth and such wonder on the wild - with vital eyes and mind he senses the essence of the world around him, tucked down in the landscape to observe better the life of the natural world
His anecdotes gleam
Beautifully charts the challenges and solaces of being alone and part of nature
[A] captivating memoir...vivid as photographs, yet sketched with something more profound than simple reportage. Beneath the measured, knowledgeable, unfussy voice is a meaningful, and even important record: not just of a changing landscape, but of a man such places have shaped.
Ansell's beautiful memoir of his walks through the Scottish wilderness makes the case for being truly a part of nature rather than outside of it
Neil Ansell is a genuine creature of the wild. His knowledge of remote places, and his love for them, come from deep and sustained immersion. He writes in prose which is entirely right for its subject - unshowy, level-headed, quietly surprising. The Last Wilderness is a wonderful experience which tingles with all the sensations of being out on the hill, in all weathers, alone
Ansell has the rare skill of combining vividly the intimacy of detail and the astonishing grandeur of this North West coastline of Scotland. Through his keen eyes we look again at the familiar with a sense of wondrous revelation
An easy storyteller, with a companionable style. His year in the forest is painterly in its attention to colours...his knowledge of birds is formidable
Every foray Ansell makes into the New Forest yields captivating insights