A review by otterno11
Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places by Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards, Robert Macfarlane

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.