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Time Song: Searching for Doggerland by Julia Blackburn (Hardcover, 2019)
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She sees the footprints of early humans fossilised in the soft mud of an estuary alongside the scattered pockmarks made by rain falling eight thousand years ago. In Denmark she sits beside Tollund Man who seems to be about to wake from a dream, even though he has lain in a peat bog since the start of the Iron Age.
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A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to Holland **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT GOLDEN BEER BOOK PRIZE 2019** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE FOR HISTORY 2020** Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past- mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Time Song brings many such stories together as it tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge and fertile area that once connected the entire east coast of England with mainland Europe, until it was finally submerged by rising sea levels around 5000 BC. Blackburn mixes fragments from her own life with a series of eighteen 'songs' and all sorts of stories about the places and the people she meets in her quest to get closer to an understanding of Doggerland. She sees the footprints of early humans fossilised in the soft mud of an estuary alongside the scattered pockmarks made by rain falling eight thousand years ago. She visits a cave where the remnants of a Neanderthal meal have turned to stone. In Denmark she sits beside Tollund Man who seems to be about to wake from a dream, even though he has lain in a peat bog since the start of the Iron Age. Time Song reveals yet again, that Julia Blackburn is one of the most original writers in Britain, with each of its pages bringing a surprise, an epiphany, a phrase of such beauty and simple profundity you can only gasp. 'Blackburn's book is startling, funny and often very moving' New StatesmanProduct Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139781911214205
eBay Product ID (ePID)18046691229
Product Key Features
Book TitleTime Song: Searching for Doggerland
AuthorJulia Blackburn
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicArchaeology, Geography & Geosciences, History
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height218mm
Item Width175mm
Item Weight792g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJulia Blackburn
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 17 Aug, 2022
Impossible to put down.
Poetical and visual. The reader is taken to a magical world and a well-told tale.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 02 Jul, 2023
Personal and yet relevant to our present climate crisis situation
A fascinating book which is both personal and universal.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
