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Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places
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Ghostways brings two of best-selling author Robert Macfarlane's eeriest works of impressionistic nature writing to American readers for the first time. In Holloway, Macfarlane and his collaborators explore the famed holloways of South Dorset, a landscape of shadows and spectres in the southwestern corner of England. In Ness, they create a modern myth about Orford Ness, the shingle desert of southeast England, for decades the United Kingdom's secret atomic weapons testing site. Featuring Stanley Donwood's spectacular etchings of woodland scenes throughout, Ghostways is a beautiful and haunted work of art unlike any other.
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"A lovely evocation of some 'spectral and unreal' elements of the British landscape."
"they offer not a guide so much as a set of glimpses, enhanced by Donwood's vivid sketches, which resemble etchings in a fairy tale ..."
"Donwood's illustrations, crosshatched like a century of scratching, are particularly suited to this half, with glimpses of suitably ominous nature and abandoned architecture ..."
"Complete with instructions for reading, this book showcases some of Macfarlane's most genre-defying work."
"Macfarlane conveys the site's haunting beauty, but his prose-poem style tends toward the gnomic and obscure ..."
"Macfarlane's work should probably not start with this book."
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