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TIME SONG - JULIA BLACKBURN KARTONIERT (TB)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through
stories and songs into Doggerland  the ancient region that once joined the east coast of
England to Holland Time Song tells of the creation  the existence and the loss of a country now
called Doggerland  a huge and fertile area that once connected the entire east coast of England
with mainland Europe  until it was finally submerged by rising sea levels around 5000 BC. Julia
Blackburn mixes fragments from her own life with a series of eighteen 'songs' and all sorts of
stories about the places and the people she meets in her quest to get closer to an
understanding of this vanished land. She sees the footprints of early humans fossilised in the
soft mud of an estuary alongside the scattered pockmarks made by rain falling eight thousand
years ago. She visits a cave where the remnants of a Neanderthal meal have turned to stone. In
Denmark she sits beside Tollund Man who  despite having lain in a peat bog since the start of
the Bronze Age  seems to be about to wake from a dream... 'This book is a wonder' Adam Nicolson
Spectator 'A clairvoyant and poetic conversation with the past' Antony Gormley

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