David Gange
Autore di The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel
Opere di David Gange
Dialogues with the Dead: Egyptology in British Culture and Religion, 1822-1922 (Classical Presences) (2013) 8 copie
Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2013) — A cura di; Collaboratore — 7 copie
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From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c.1800-1940 (Proceedings of the British Academy) (2013) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
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I suspect that simply, after such an epic journey, he has more affection for places he writes his own experiences as opposed to relying on others. Bardsey above Cornwall for example, Havera above Mull. Skellig Michael above Land’s End.
The blend, like a Scotch whisky, works really well when he gets it right.. for example, quoting from Charles Edwardes ‘The Island In The Currents’ of Enlli, off the Llyn peninsula (Bardsey):
“A slow old man, with much grizzled hair to his head and chin, and the signs of recent breakfast about his mouth, came towards us with a scythe. ‘I am the king,’ he said quietly...and then with a differential little bow, he went to cut grass.”
He recounts his interviews with islanders.. the ‘modern sceptic’ he begins, surely doubts the story that 20,000 saints are buried here, but the experience of those who work ‘this preposterous charnel pit’ belies incredulous assumptions:
“It is all bones underneath, nothing but bones. I have seen them myself, indeed. Thee were women with hair eighteen inches long, and child’s, and man’s, in such heaps as you could not believe. And their teeth, oh indeed, I never did see such full mouths of them.”
But overall it’s an inspirational book. There are some wonderfully written passages and many fascinating anecdotes. And I am inspired myself, albeit not by kayak, but with the mountain bike, running shoes, dog, tent and van to go to retrace the journey (by land) and investigate some of these places.… (altro)