Description: The Raven's Nest by Sarah Thomas A breathtaking mix of nature writing, memoir and travel, this is the story of the making and unmaking of a marriage, and the search for home among the elemental landscape of Icelands bewitching Westfjords. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Fascinating - Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old WaysTruly a thing of wonder - Kerri ni Dochartaigh, author of Thin PlacesLyrical [and] thoughtful - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of AbandonmentVisiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in 2008, Sarah Thomas is spellbound by its otherworldly landscape. An immediate love for this country and for Bjarni, a man she meets there, turns a week-long stay into a transformative half-decade, one which radically alters Sarahs understanding of herself and of the living world.She embarks on a relationship not only with Bjarni, but with the light, the language, and the old wooden house they make their home. She finds a place where the light of the midwinter full moon reflected by snow can be brighter than daylight, where the earth can tremor at any time, and where the word for echo - bergmal - translates as the language of the mountain. In the midst of crisis both personal and planetary, as her marriage falls apart, Sarah finds inspiration in the artistry of a ravens nest: a home which persists through breaking and reweaving - over and over.Written in beautifully vivid prose The Ravens Nest is a profoundly moving meditation on place, identity and how we might live in an era of environmental disruption. Author Biography Sarah Thomas is a writer and filmmaker. Her films have been screened internationally, and she is a contributor to the Dark Mountain journal. Her writing has also appeared in the Guardian and the anthology Women on Nature edited by Katharine Norbury. Table of Contents 1: Breaking Up 2: Landing 3: Shift 4: Tónleikar - Concert 5: Fjallafang - Embrace of the Mountains 6: Mataræði - Diet 7: Gíslholt 8: Seal Wife 9: Að smala og að slátra - Gathering and Slaughtering 10: Gos - Eruption/Gas/Fizzy Drink 11: Flytja - To Move 12: Krummi - Raven 13: BogguhÚs 14: The Frozen Bell 15: A Floating House 16: TrÚlofun - Engagement 17: Selur - Seal 18: Þakið - Roof 19: A Walk in My Valley 20: Göng - Passage/Corridor/Tunnel 21: Að snÚa - To Turn; SnÚið - Complicated 22: Innflytjandi - Importer/Immigrant 23: The Strangest Silence 24: Svartfuglsegg - Black-birds-egg 25: Hvalurinn - The Whale 26: Seljavallalaug - Shieling-plains-pool 27: Herring Adventure 28: To Hell and Back 29: The Ravens Nest 30: Sjóndeildarhringur - Horizon Review A deeply thoughtful, vivid, enquiring, genre-traversing book, closely attentive to the people and the landscapes with which it dwells. It asks hard questions - and offers no easy answers - about what it means to belong to a place, and to live well upon a part of the earth. Sarahs writing - crisp in its details, patient in its rhythms - draws its readers northwards and inwards upon a fascinating journey. * Robert Macfarlane *Sarah Thomas lyrical, thoughtful prose takes us on a journey, both physical and emotional, to the far north. * Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment *An insightful, intuitive introduction to Icelandic culture, folklore, mysticism, language and nature. * Times Literary Supplement *A quiet, generous and beautifully written meditation on what it means to try to belong to a singular culture on the edge of Europe. * Literary Review *Thomas writing is the stuff of dreams - not in any whimsical way - rather, in the way of bones and stones; light and dark; hopes and fears. She leads the reader through various portals - from a place of unknowing - to one of hope. This book maps the self, the world and the spaces in between with such tender care. Truly a thing of wonder. * Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places *A metamorphic book bursting with ideas and insights about belonging, acceptance, and supernatural joy. A chronicle of Icelands ever-strange, prismic beauty and the myriad ways it works on the heart. * Dan Richards, author of Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth *The Ravens Nest asks what it means to belong to a place from which we do not originate. Anthropological and tender in detail. * Abi Andrews, author The Word for Woman is Wilderness *The Ravens Nest is a candid yet beautiful memoir, an homage both to Iceland and a rapidly changing way of life, and a meditation on the constantly shifting nature of human identity. Thomass evocative prose leaves striking images which glow in the memory long after the reading has ended. * Katharine Norbury, author of The Fish Ladder *Sarah Thomas evokes characters and the culture, a sense of time and the landscape in beautiful prose which makes my brain do cartwheels. * Nancy Campbell, author of The Library of Ice *The Ravens Nest is about a meeting of worlds. Sarah arrives in Iceland with a guests clear eyes, as Icelanders say. A sincere and perceptive book that explores love, adventure and the search for connections in a big world. * Andri Snær Magnason, author of On Time and Water *A delicate cartography of emotional landscapes as well as place, The Ravens Nest is also a journey into to the heart of our planetary crisis. Beautiful, moving and fascinating. * Nick Hunt, author of Outlandish * Details ISBN1838956719 Author Sarah Thomas Pages 336 Publisher Atlantic Books Year 2023 ISBN-10 1838956719 ISBN-13 9781838956714 Publication Date 2023-06-01 UK Release Date 2023-06-01 Format Paperback Imprint Atlantic Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-06-01 Subtitle An Icelandic Journey Through Light and Darkness Edition Description Main DEWEY 949.1206092 Audience General NZ Release Date 2023-08-28 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160030612;
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