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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.’
Mouse Trails
Noelle Kocot
‘What I am equipped to do is different / Than what I have been called for.’
The Hand’s Breadth Murders
Adam Nicolson & Gus Palmer
‘It is what happens in a place where revenge is the only justice.’
The Middle Ages: Approaching the Question of a Terminal Date
David Szalay
‘What is left? What is he to wrap himself in, now that everything has floated off into space?’
Come Again/Woods
Maureen N. McLane
‘They party in the woods / as if they were meant for pleasure / not timber.’
To the Ocean
Deb Olin Unferth
‘At the desk they said they encouraged guests not to walk, but she was determined’
Hunters in the Snow
Andrew Motion
‘The hunters have all failed, / the three hunters and their forlorn dogs / now arriving home from the mountain / which thunders above their village’
Fragments
Roger Deakin & Robert Macfarlane
‘Entering a wood is to enter an element as different as the sea.’
About the Cover
Stanley Donwood
‘I took myself off to the woods, the fragments of the great forests that once spread over our continent.’
An (almost) perfect day
Anne De Gelas
‘I think of the self-portrait as a mirror of all the violence that befalls us.’
