Doggerland

Product Information

Julia Blackburn mixes fragments from her own life with a series of eighteen 'songs' and all sorts of stories about the places and the people she meets in her quest to get closer to an understanding of this vanished land. . In Denmark she sits beside Tollund Man who, despite having lain in a peat bog since the start of the Bronze Age, seems to be about to wake from a dream. Standard UK £2. She sees the footprints of early humans fossilised in the soft mud of an estuary alongside the scattered pockmarks made by rain falling eight thousand years ago. Author(s): Blackburn, Julia, Binding: Paperback, Date of Publication: 10/02/2022, Pagination: 304 pages, Series: N/A, Imprint: Vintage, Published By: Vintage Publishing, Book Classification: Humanities, ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781784704902 Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Free Local Delivery to Selected SE Postcodes only (*SE22,SE23,SE4,SE5,SE14,SE15) Please do not choose this option if you live out of these zones. 'This book is a wonder' Adam Nicolson, Spectator'A clairvoyant and poetic conversation with the past' Antony Gormley SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to HollandTime Song tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge and fertile area that once connected the entire east coast of England with mainland Europe, until it was finally submerged by rising sea levels around 5000 BC.