Script of the Stones

A Short Walk at the End of the World

AvFrancis Gooding

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

The Script of the Stones follows a single half-mile clifftop walk on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales - one the author has been making his whole life. It takes fifteen minutes, if you keep moving. But one day Francis Gooding decides to stop and look down. What unfolds is a rare act of attention: to limestone laid down in tropical seas 350 million years ago, to the orchids and gorse and banded snails that have claimed the cliff for their own, to the rocks and caves that hold the bones of mammoths, bears and one ochre-stained man who slept here for thirty thousand years. But the cliff also holds something else: the deep, tangled roots of human history - imperial violence, ecological destruction - rising through the red earth like the old mole Shakespeare knew, unstoppable, asking to be acknowledged.A book about grief and deep time, about what it means to belong to a place and what it costs to pay attention, The Script of the Stones is nature writing of a rare and searching kind. An elegy, a field guide, a ghost story - and underneath it all, a love letter to one small patch of the world.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-02
Mått:138 x 216 x 36 mm
Vikt:474 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Atlantic Books
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Atlantic Books
ISBN:9781838957438

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Francis Gooding is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books and Critical Quarterly and is a regular columnist and feature writer at The Wire. His writing on diverse subjects including art, film, music, politics and colonial history has been published widely, appearing in publications including Time Out, Guardian, The Thinker, We Jazz magazine, and for Redstone Press, the Lisson Gallery, the Barbican, BFI and others. His book on painting and myth, Black Light, was published in 2009. He teaches film and is Head of Research at the Derek Jarman Lab; he also co-runs a record label, Tapestry Works.

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The Script of the Stones is at once a deep excavation of the difficult histories bound up in human writing about nature, and a call to attend to what languages and texts may be held within the changing layers and surfaces of the Earth itself. I loved this book for its deliberate stickiness, its openness to mystery and strangeness, its commitment to taking unmarked paths - from which, inevitably, emerge moments of great insight, and exhilarating, mind-altering new truths.

Innehållsförteckning

1: A Walk at the End of the World 2: Mystic Writing Pad: Rocks 3: Parents and Skeletons: Earth 4: A Terrestriall Galaxie: Plants 5: Mars Owns the Herbs: Gorse 6: Kill Not the Moth: Small Things 7: The Script of the Stones 8: Ways Down 9: L'Origine du monde: Caves 10: The Secrets of the Sea: Rockpools 11: And Back Up Again 12: The Pathless Path: Birds 13: Every Calf and Cow: Mammals 14: Black Apples