Water and Sky: Voices from the Riverside - Hardcover

Sentance, Neil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190821323X ISBN 13: 9781908213235

Publisher: Little Toller Books, 2014

Synopsis

Neil Sentance revisits his native Lincolnshire riverlands and fields, farms and market towns, to explore the history of his family and the landscape which shaped them. But this is not a lament for a lost world. Peopled by characters forgotten by history, it celebrates the countryside with a rare combination of lyricism and muddy realism. Water and Sky collects together Neil Sentance's 'Scenes from the Waterside', a sequence of essays which first appeared on the Caught by the River website between 2010 and 2013. Water and Sky is an original and haunting blend of nature writing, memoir and historical fiction.

About this title

Product Description:

This volume comprises the Scenes from the Waterside sequence of essays that originally appeared on the 'Caught by the River' website between 2010 and 2013. Celebrating the countryside with a combination of lyricism and muddy realism, Neil Sentance revisits his native Lincolnshire riverlands and fields, farms and market towns, exploring the history of his family and the landscape which shaped it. With woodcut illustrations by Jonathan Gibbs.

Review:

"This slim, beautifully written book is a thought-provoking exploration of times past that will appeal to readers who want to learn about the history of this small section of England or are interested in how progress alters a community." -- Library Journal "Library Journal"

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Toller Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 190821323X
• ISBN 13: 9781908213235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80
• Illustrator: Gibbs Jonathan