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← Back to all issuesGranta 102: The New Nature Writing
Summer 2008
As our conception and experience of nature changes, so too does the way we write about it. This special issue features Kathleen Jamie on human pathology, Jonathan Raban on the road in the American West and Robert Macfarlane ghost-hunting in the Fens. Plus, new fiction by Lydia Peelle and a graphic story from David Heatley.
From this Issue
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Witness: Butterflies on a Wheel
Anthony Doerr
‘Butterflies: a long, shimmering curtain.’
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Science: When the world turns ugly
Jim Holt
‘Disorder is the essence of global warming.’
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Encounter: The visions of Kurt Jackson
Mark Cocker
‘A thing of colour and elemental contest and of beauty.’
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Pathologies
Kathleen Jamie
‘It felt surprisingly good to be part of that rough tribe of the mortal.’
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The Tree of the Cross
Richard Mabey
‘Spending the first half of my life in the Chilterns, in southern England’s chalk country, I grew up with yews.’
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Land’s End
Philip Marsden
‘Never by any chance will any wanderer from the world discover him in that illimitable wilderness.’
