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Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places by Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards, Robert Macfarlane
hsr731's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
4.5
scottjraney's review
3.0
Ghostways offers a look into two mysterious environments and describes them through beautiful poetic language. I really enjoyed learning about Orford Ness and the Holloways of South Dorset. Stanley Donwood's illustrations add another layer of meaning to the text. Though the writing is beautiful, I can't help but think it feels a little pretentious. This book is short – could probably read through in an hour – but it seems like it will offer value for multiple reads. My favorite chapter was Drift. My favorite part of the book was the second half about the holloways.
bogbodyanon's review against another edition
3.0
This book was at turns strange and a delight, lyrical and pedantic, liminal and tangible.
otterno11's review
dark
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
English nature writers Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, and Dan Richards collaborate in the evocative Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places, an atmospheric work using striking artwork and poetic language to explore the connections between place, the human and natural worlds, history personal and societal, human time and deep time. Focusing on two specific locales in England, Orford Ness and a “holloway” in Dorset, Ghostways is a lovely merging of art and nonfiction, poetry and nature writing, history and memoir to consider how we experience these specific places in unique ways, connecting the reader to more ways that the past, both human, animal, and environmental, remains part of our daily world.
I discuss other books exploring memory, place, and ghosts at Harris' Tome Corner.
I discuss other books exploring memory, place, and ghosts at Harris' Tome Corner.
ashayay's review
ness was good. holloway was great. the art is amazing and haunting
ronald_schoedel's review
5.0
I loved this. The first journey, "Ness", is written as a form of poetry or libretto. I was taken aback by it at first, then read it a couple more times and savored it. "Holloway" is more straightforward, but also somewhat otherworldly. Very enjoyable.
prcizmadia's review
4.0
What a thought-provoking meditation on ways to approach the natural and human histories of a geographic space. I personally find myself bogged down and preoccupied by the immediately physical; this helps broaden my perceptions to grasp the role of time that shoots through a place, as well as the mystical and metaphysical.