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A Land

By Jacquetta Hawkes

By Jacquetta Hawkes

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Apr 30, 1991 | ISBN 9780807085110

A Land by Jacquetta Hawkes
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Apr 30, 1991 | ISBN 9780807085110

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About A Land

A pioneering work of modern nature writing; a natural history of the author’s beloved British Isles that inhabits a lush territory somewhere between science and poetry.

About Jacquetta Hawkes

Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-1996), English-born writer, anthropologist and archaeologist, was best known for her documentation of the beautiful British Isles in A Land. She attended Newnham College and traveled on archeology expeditions to various locations, including Palestine and other parts of England. Her… More about Jacquetta Hawkes

Product Details

Category: Science & Technology | European World History

Paperback | $17.00
Published by Beacon Press
Apr 30, 1991 | 268 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780807085110

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Praise

“Under the guise of a geological and archaeological history of Great Britain, this book is an extraordinary and brilliantly written meditation on consciousness, evolution, and art.”
—Robert Finch, coeditor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing

“Jacquetta Hawkes’s A Land is magnificent, a masterpiece of prose. Why do so few write so well anymore? The grace in this writing, and in her observations, virtually comprise a poem.”
—Alexander Theroux

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