自然寫作名家╳電台司令樂團御用藝術家╳旅遊作家
聯手探訪被遺忘之境,寫下令人心醉神迷、充滿詩意的作品
羅伯特.麥克法倫──當今旅行文學頂尖旗手,史丹利.唐伍德──電台司令樂團御用藝術家,丹.理查茲──雙走遍天下的旅遊作家,三人探訪英國杳無人跡、被眾人遺忘的角落,共同創作出如詩篇章。
好幾世紀以前,旅人與馬車絡繹不絕的多賽特,而今只剩下被風化的岩石還鎮守在此。曾經的祕密核爆試驗所奧福德內斯,在作家筆下,有了全新的故事。
這些在地圖上找不到的一隅,這些無人知曉的沙塵與草地,現在化成一首首詩詞、一篇篇散文、一句句話語,為我們畫出一幅幅充滿生命力的自然畫作,讓我們得以遙想,無法親身走進的世界,是什麼樣子。(文/博客來編譯)
A hauntingly beautiful diptych of works inspired by Robert Macfarlane’s travels with celebrated collaborators to two eerie corners of England.
In Holloway, "a perfect miniature prose-poem" (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near the south coast of England, to explore a famed "hollowed way"―a path used by walkers and riders for so many centuries that it has become worn far down into the soft golden bedrock of the region.
In Ness, "a triumphant libretto of mythic modernism for our poisoned age" (Max Porter), Macfarlane and Donwood create a modern myth about Orford Ness, the ten-mile-long shingle spit that lies off the coast of East Anglia, which the British government used for decades to conduct secret weapons tests.