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The Resource Surfacing, Kathleen Jamie

Surfacing, Kathleen Jamie

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Summary
  • "A new collection of essays exploring the nature of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning author of Sightlines"--
  • "In this remarkable collection, part travelogue, part cultural and personal history, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the impressiely preserved homes of neolithic farmers in Scotland, Jamie explores how the changing natural world can alter our sense of time. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself. In precise, luminous prose, Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted" --
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
247 pages
Note
"First published in Great Britain by Sort Of Books 2019" -- Verso title page
Contents
  • Reindeer Cave
  • A Reflection
  • In Quinhagak
  • The Eagle
  • Links of Noltland
  • The Inevitable Pagoda
  • Surfacing
  • From the Window
  • A Tibetan Dog
  • The Wind Horse
  • Elders
  • Voice of the Wood
Isbn
9780143134459
Instance
Label
Surfacing
Title
Surfacing
Statement of responsibility
Kathleen Jamie
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
  • "A new collection of essays exploring the nature of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning author of Sightlines"--
  • "In this remarkable collection, part travelogue, part cultural and personal history, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the impressiely preserved homes of neolithic farmers in Scotland, Jamie explores how the changing natural world can alter our sense of time. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself. In precise, luminous prose, Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted" --
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1962-
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Jamie, Kathleen
Dewey number
824/.914
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PR6060.A477
LC item number
A6 2019
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Jamie, Kathleen
  • Jamie, Kathleen
  • Jamie, Kathleen
  • Life change events
  • Scotland
  • Alaska
  • Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
  • Jamie, Kathleen
  • Life change events
  • Travel
  • Alaska
  • China
  • Scotland
Label
Surfacing, Kathleen Jamie
Instantiates
Publication
Note
"First published in Great Britain by Sort Of Books 2019" -- Verso title page
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Reindeer Cave -- A Reflection -- In Quinhagak -- The Eagle -- Links of Noltland -- The Inevitable Pagoda -- Surfacing -- From the Window -- A Tibetan Dog -- The Wind Horse -- Elders -- Voice of the Wood
Control code
on1083708156
Dimensions
21 cm
Extent
247 pages
Isbn
9780143134459
Lccn
2019025260
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
Surfacing, Kathleen Jamie
Publication
Note
"First published in Great Britain by Sort Of Books 2019" -- Verso title page
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Reindeer Cave -- A Reflection -- In Quinhagak -- The Eagle -- Links of Noltland -- The Inevitable Pagoda -- Surfacing -- From the Window -- A Tibetan Dog -- The Wind Horse -- Elders -- Voice of the Wood
Control code
on1083708156
Dimensions
21 cm
Extent
247 pages
Isbn
9780143134459
Lccn
2019025260
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations

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