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Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"At Treasure Island, a humanly made island in the San Francisco Bay, a performance troupe dressed in hazmat suits articulate gestures that resemble toxic remediation. As they become more attuned to the site and to its history and ecology, enigmatic presences infiltrate their spacetime. Are they from the past, the present, or the future? What is the significance of their sudden arrival? What happens when historical and geological eras converge? Meanwhile,...
2) Walking the bones of Britain: a 3 billion year journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville, author of The January Man and Ships of Heaven, sets out to discover how the land beneath our feet shapes our past, our present and our future. Britain is blessed with a vast variety of landscapes -- from marshes to slate mountains, chalk downs to volcanic islands. How we live, work and eat has been moulded and shaped by wild, violent events that occurred thousands,...
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