Nicola Chester
On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging (Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2022 for Nature Writing)
On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging (Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2022 for Nature Writing)
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In her book "On Gallows Down," Nicola Chester explores her connection to the natural landscape of rural England, fighting against political and environmental changes while raising her family to appreciate nature.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 14 July 2022
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing UK
A rural, working-class writer in a field that is all too rarefied, Chester's work is unique in its portrayal of the countryside as it is lived on the economic margins. The Guardian An important portrait of connection to the land beyond ownership or possession. Raynor Winn 'It's ever so good. Political, passionate, and personal. Robert Macfarlane 'Evocative and inspiring... environmental protest, family, motherhood, and... nature. Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground, Costa Novel Award Winner 2021 Nature is everything. It is the place I come from and the place I got to. It is family. Wherever I am, it is home and away, an escape, a bolt hole, a reason, a place to fight for, a consolation, and a way home. As a child growing up in rural England, Guardian Country Diarist Nicola Chester was inexorably drawn to the natural landscape surrounding her. Walking, listening, and breathing in the nature around her, she followed the call of the cuckoo, the song of the nightingale, and watched as red kites, fieldfares, and skylarks soared through the endless skies over the chalk hills of the North Wessex Downs: the ancient land of Greenham Common that she called home. Nicola bears witness to, and fights against, the stark political and environmental changes imposed on the land she loves, while raising her family to appreciate nature and to feel like they belong—core parts of who Nicola is. From protesting the loss of ancient trees to the rewilding of Greenham Common, to the gibbet on Gallows Down, and living in the shadow of Highclere Castle (made famous in Downton Abbey), On Gallows Down shows how one woman made sense.
Weight: 224g
Dimension: 129 x 195 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781915294067
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