A review by mat_tobin
A Land by Jacquetta Hawkes

3.0

Dancing between poetry and information text, Hawkes' text became an 'unconventional' bestseller when it was published in 1951 and possibly because of its very style. One could argue that it is a precursor to the swathe of idyllic nature books that are swamping bookshops at the moment. Whatever the case although much of the geological facts are dated now it is still a delight to read - one person's dreaming of and reimagining of the Earth and man's mark upon it.