The Flow
Rivers, Water and Wildness - Winner of the 2023 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing
1st Edition
Published on 4. August 2022
400 pages
978-1-4729-7738-0 (ISBN)
Description
WINNER OF THE 2023 JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING
'Unparalleled.' THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
'A true masterpiece.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'A tour de force.' GUY SHRUBSOLE
'Quietly courageous.' PATRICK BARKHAM
'Lyrical, wholehearted and wise.' LEE SCHOFIELD
'A knockout. I loved it.' MELISSA HARRISON
'Honest, raw and moving.' SOPHIE PAVELLE
'An extraordinary book by an extraordinary author.' CHRIS JONES
'A book of wit, wonder and of wisdom.' NICK ACHESON
'Beautiful.' NICOLA CHESTER
A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer's love of rivers setting her on a journey of natural, cultural and emotional discovery.
On New Year's Day 2012, Amy-Jane Beer's beloved friend Kate set out with a group of others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate never came home, and her death left her devoted family and friends bereft and unmoored.
Returning to visit the Rawthey years later, Amy realises how much she misses the connection to the natural world she always felt when on or close to rivers, and so begins a new phase of exploration.
The Flow is a book about water, and, like water, it meanders, cascades and percolates through many lives, landscapes and stories. From West Country torrents to Levels and Fens, rocky Welsh canyons, the salmon highways of Scotland and the chalk rivers of the Yorkshire Wolds, Amy-Jane follows springs, streams and rivers to explore tributary themes of wildness and wonder, loss and healing, mythology and history, cyclicity and transformation.
Threading together places and voices from across Britain, The Flow is a profound, immersive exploration of our personal and ecological place in nature.
'Unparalleled.' THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
'A true masterpiece.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'A tour de force.' GUY SHRUBSOLE
'Quietly courageous.' PATRICK BARKHAM
'Lyrical, wholehearted and wise.' LEE SCHOFIELD
'A knockout. I loved it.' MELISSA HARRISON
'Honest, raw and moving.' SOPHIE PAVELLE
'An extraordinary book by an extraordinary author.' CHRIS JONES
'A book of wit, wonder and of wisdom.' NICK ACHESON
'Beautiful.' NICOLA CHESTER
A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer's love of rivers setting her on a journey of natural, cultural and emotional discovery.
On New Year's Day 2012, Amy-Jane Beer's beloved friend Kate set out with a group of others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate never came home, and her death left her devoted family and friends bereft and unmoored.
Returning to visit the Rawthey years later, Amy realises how much she misses the connection to the natural world she always felt when on or close to rivers, and so begins a new phase of exploration.
The Flow is a book about water, and, like water, it meanders, cascades and percolates through many lives, landscapes and stories. From West Country torrents to Levels and Fens, rocky Welsh canyons, the salmon highways of Scotland and the chalk rivers of the Yorkshire Wolds, Amy-Jane follows springs, streams and rivers to explore tributary themes of wildness and wonder, loss and healing, mythology and history, cyclicity and transformation.
Threading together places and voices from across Britain, The Flow is a profound, immersive exploration of our personal and ecological place in nature.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-7738-0 (9781472977380)
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The Flow
Rivers, Water and Wildness - WINNER OF THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING
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The Flow
Rivers, Water and Wildness - WINNER OF THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING
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Amy-Jane Beer is a biologist turned naturalist and writer. She has worked for more than 20 years as a science writer and editor, contributing to more than 40 books on natural history. She is currently a Country Diarist for The Guardian, a columnist for British Wildlife and a feature writer for BBC Wildlife magazine, among others. She campaigns for the equality of access to nature and collaboration between the farming and conservation sectors. She is a member of the steering group of the environmental arts charity New Networks for Nature and the land rights campaign RightToRoam.org.uk, and is honorary President of the national park society Friends of the Dales. Her book The Flow won the 2023 James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing.
Content
Prologue: Only water, moving on
Chapter 1: Fresh and yet so very old
Eddy: Snow dome
Chapter 2: Torrent
Eddy: Hollowing
Chapter 3: Oak-water
Eddy: Groundwater
Chapter 4: Fly while we may
Eddy: Dark water
Chapter 5: Lines upon the land
Meander: Bath toys
Chapter 6: The meanings of water
Eddy: Otter
Chapter 7: The Bell Guy and the Gypsey
Chapter 8: A willow grows aslant a brook
Eddy: Minus seven
Chapter 9: The cry of the Dart
Meander: Flow
Chapter 10: Trespassers will
Eddy: Summer on the Nene
Chapter 11: Chalk stream dreaming
Eddy: Heron
Chapter 12: Land covered by water
Eddy: High water
Chapter 13: Ouroboros
Meander: Ghosts in the willows
Chapter 14: The silver fish
Chapter 15: Light and water
Eddy: Damnation
Chapter 16: Anadrome
Chapter 17: Riverwoods
Eddy: Flowover
Chapter 18: Confluence and influence
Meander: A river released
Chapter 19: The Mucky Beck
Eddy: Withow Gap
Chapter 20: Rodents of unusual size
Eddy: The narrow bridge
Chapter 21: Heartland
Chapter 22: A descent into Hell Gill (and out the other side)
Epilogue
Author's note and acknowledgements
Further reading
Index
Chapter 1: Fresh and yet so very old
Eddy: Snow dome
Chapter 2: Torrent
Eddy: Hollowing
Chapter 3: Oak-water
Eddy: Groundwater
Chapter 4: Fly while we may
Eddy: Dark water
Chapter 5: Lines upon the land
Meander: Bath toys
Chapter 6: The meanings of water
Eddy: Otter
Chapter 7: The Bell Guy and the Gypsey
Chapter 8: A willow grows aslant a brook
Eddy: Minus seven
Chapter 9: The cry of the Dart
Meander: Flow
Chapter 10: Trespassers will
Eddy: Summer on the Nene
Chapter 11: Chalk stream dreaming
Eddy: Heron
Chapter 12: Land covered by water
Eddy: High water
Chapter 13: Ouroboros
Meander: Ghosts in the willows
Chapter 14: The silver fish
Chapter 15: Light and water
Eddy: Damnation
Chapter 16: Anadrome
Chapter 17: Riverwoods
Eddy: Flowover
Chapter 18: Confluence and influence
Meander: A river released
Chapter 19: The Mucky Beck
Eddy: Withow Gap
Chapter 20: Rodents of unusual size
Eddy: The narrow bridge
Chapter 21: Heartland
Chapter 22: A descent into Hell Gill (and out the other side)
Epilogue
Author's note and acknowledgements
Further reading
Index
