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Twelve Words for Moss, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2024
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- Titel
- Twelve Words for Moss
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
- Uitgever
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2024
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 192
- ISBN10
- 0141999543
- ISBN13
- 9780141999548
- Reeks
- Beoordeling
- 3,65 van 5
- Aantekening
- LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024 Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2023 for Nature Writing 'Exquisite, luminous and quietly radical . . . utterly unique and refreshing' Lucy Jones Where nothing grows, moss is the spark that triggers new life. Embarking on a journey though landscape, memory and recovery, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett explores this mysterious, ancient marvel of the plant world, meditating on and renaming her favourite mosses - from Glowflake to Little Loss - and drawing inspiration from place, people and language itself. 'Fascinating, subtle and risk-taking . . . Poetry, descriptive-evocative prose, memory, memoir, natural history and more all drift and mingle in strikingly new ways' Robert Macfarlane