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Introduction: What Have We Done
Sigrid Rausing
‘There is an apocalyptic feeling in the air. I write the day after the news that the IS have blown up parts of the ancient site of Palmyra.’
The Invitation
Barry Lopez
‘The effort to know a place deeply is, ultimately, an expression of the human desire to belong, to fit somewhere.’
Upriver
Kathleen Jamie
‘I liked the way she travelled: with her iPod in one pocket, her traditional Yup’ik woman’s knife, or ulu, in the other.’
The Hand’s Breadth Murders
Adam Nicolson & Gus Palmer
‘It is what happens in a place where revenge is the only justice.’
Fragments
Roger Deakin & Robert Macfarlane
‘Entering a wood is to enter an element as different as the sea.’
An (almost) perfect day
Anne De Gelas
‘I think of the self-portrait as a mirror of all the violence that befalls us.’
Saving Mesopotamia
Alexandra Lucas Coelho
‘What they are excavating is the birth of a civilisation.’
Greg Jackson | First Sentence
Greg Jackson
‘I am being, I believe, about as forthright as I am being coy.’
Hotel Haunting
Joanna Walsh
‘There was a time in my life when I lived in hotels. Around this time, the time I did not spend in hotels was time I did not live.’
