Edgeland
Walking the South West Coast Path
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Edgeland
Narrated by:
Sasha Swire
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Narrated by:
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Sasha Swire
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Sasha Swire
About this listen
'A real achievement - unexpectedly moving with every beat and turn of its taut, precise prose' Rory Stewart
'Beautifully written... a contemplative, Paul Theroux-like exploration of our most stunning coastline' Daily Telegraph
'Swire ingeniously evokes the landscapes, famous people who lived here and, especially, the flora and fauna' Guardian
In Edgeland, the political diarist Sasha Swire escapes the confines of Westminster to walk the northern stretch of the South West Coast Path. Starting at Minehead in Somerset, she follows the well-trodden path to Land's End in Cornwall, walking it in sections over a decade-long period, returning each year like a migratory bird.
The result is an immersive, beguiling and literary exploration of one of the most enigmatic, beautiful and popular coastlines on earth. It is also a contemplative and very personal response to a story about our English shore from pre-Celtic times to the present day; of the upheaval of rocks; of astonishing botany; of pilgrimage and customs; of the exploitation of resources and of dangers to come.
Swire identifies how important edges are to us as she walks, not only in how we see our world but in our attitude to it. She observes that the outside limits, the borders, the line where two surfaces of a solid meet actively, encourage not only flora and fauna but people to gather, create, generate resistance and build new ways of living and working.
She discovers that the path is not only a walk through Britain's windswept and wave-battered western fringes but a tale about how we and nature have, through extraordinary resilience and relentless spirit, learnt to tame the various forces that are stacked against us. That we live at the edge of the possible.©2023 Sasha Swire (P)2023 Hachette Audio UK
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Interesting ponderings but not a walkers diary
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Excellent Traval-Inspured Writing
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I was very disappointed, the author seems to continually go off on long, dull tangents, that have little bearing on the walk, rather than focusing on the walk and the history or social impact of where they are walking.
What is also tiresome is the frequent nods to 'culture wars' tropes that are frankly dull and very tempting to skip over as the author goes on another rant.
I have had this book for over 3 months and have rarely looked forward to listening to it on my walks in winter and decided to return it.
If you want a travel book of someone walking along one of the most scenic parks of the UK with descriptions of what's it like, the smells, sounds, and feel, with some context to where they are walking this is not the book for you :(
Too much rambling, not enough of rambling!
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much pompous rhetoric . I just struggled to follow some of it and got bored waiting for the points she was trying to make.
She’s not easy to listen to either. Sometimes having authors to read rather than actors, who can inject pace, nuance and life into a text, is a wrong decision. This is one such instance. It ‘s very one dimensional - very clipped accent and it suffers as some words ai didn’t hear because it sounds like she has a mouthful of plums. Just not for me.
Awful pompous rambling.
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