Returning Light Trente ans sur l'île de Skellig Michael

  • en
  • Couverture rigide
  • 9780063268289
  • 18 juillet 2023
  • 272 pages
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Résumé

The Acclaimed International Bestseller

"Reading Returning Light is a spiritual experience." —Irish Examiner

By the lighthouse keeper on the remote, otherworldly Irish island of Skellig Michael, a "profound memoir about the importance of place and what it really means to belong" (Belfast Telegraph)

“On Skellig Michael, thousands of birds appear and disappear, erecting towers, coming together in wings of movement which build and unravel over the empty sea. Often, no one else is there to stand beside me on the island. The mind wanders; links with the past are easily made; ancient ways of viewing things come alive.”

In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper—a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland’s most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years.

Here he transports us to the otherworldly island, a place that is teeming with natural life, including curious puffins that like to visit his hut. From the precipice he has observed a coastline that is relatively unchanged for the last thousand years—a beacon of equilibrium in an ever-changing world.

But the island can be fierce too. It’s inhabitable for only five months of the year, and solitude can quickly become isolation as bad weather rolls in to create a veil between Skellig Michael and the rest of the world, when the dizzying terrain can become a very real threat to life.

A beautiful and evocative work of nature writing, Returning Light is an extraordinary memoir about the profound effect a place can have on us, and how a remote location can bring with it a great sense of belonging.

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Langue
en
Binding
Couverture rigide
Date de sortie initiale
18 juillet 2023
Nombre de pages
272
Illustrations
Avec illustrations

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Auteur principal
Robert L Harris
Editeur principal
Collins

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Hauteur de l'emballage
28 mm
Hauteur du produit
28 mm
Largeur d'emballage
150 mm
Largeur du produit
150 mm
Livre d‘étude
Non
Longueur d'emballage
231 mm
Longueur du produit
231 mm
Poids de l'emballage
431 g

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9780063268289
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