Surfacing

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Kathleen Jamie: Surfacing (2020, Sort of Books)

240 pages

English language

Published Dec. 8, 2020 by Sort of Books.

ISBN:
978-1-908745-82-8
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Unearthing the past

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Kathleen Jamie has a unique voice for teasing out poetic responses to landscape while also telling stories with a deceptive ease. This collection is about digging up stories of the past, with some shorter chapters surrounding three longer ones. The shorter are responsive while the longer are the centre-points for the book, and each deals with a different archaeology. The first of the three takes place in the Arctic tundra, where Jamie visits an archaeological dig with people from the Yup'ik culture who are collecting objects from hundreds of years ago that are being revealed by the melting ice. The second is at an archaeological dig on Westray island in Scotland on a prehistorical site of living. The third is an unearthing of Jamie's own memory, through her rediscovering a notebook from a trip to Tibet in her early 20s, at the time of the student protests in China. The …

Subjects

  • Life change events
  • Scotland, description and travel
  • Alaska, description and travel
  • Tibet autonomous region (china), description and travel

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