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The rising down : lives in a Sussex landscape / Alexandra Harris.

"A luminous feat of time travel chronicling lives in a Sussex landscape from the prize-winning author of Romantic Moderns and Weatherland. An ancient church sheltering a medieval anchorite who chose to be buried alive.The country estate parading a menagerie of exotic animals.The cottage where W...

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Main Author: Harris, Alexandra, 1981- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Faber & Faber, 2024.
Subjects:
Sussex (England) > History.
Sussex (England) > Social life and customs.
Sussex (England) > Biography.
Sussex (Angleterre) > Histoire.
Sussex (Angleterre) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Sussex (Angleterre) > Biographies.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I.
  • The visitor
  • High stream of Arundel
  • A teacher's books
  • Quarter sessions
  • Sic Vita
  • A churchman's books
  • Cider in Storrington
  • Part II.
  • The London model
  • Eastern chalk
  • Native strains
  • Light footsteps
  • Midsummer flint
  • A teacher's places
  • Italian light on North Street
  • Moose
  • Desolate paradise
  • A marble head
  • Part III.
  • An open gate
  • Further fields
  • New South Downs
  • The fat of the land
  • A historian's books
  • Mill and Castle
  • New timetables
  • A teacher's history
  • Part IV.
  • Just country
  • Tank tracks
  • The pine tree
  • An open window
  • Shadow and blaze
  • A teacher's return
  • A census.

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