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Hannah Lees's avatar

Those echoes! Orca, seal, rocky coastline, island imaginaries! Something uncanny, also, about reading something so place-based when we’re descended from people that chose/had to move from that place

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Rosie Whinray's avatar

Yes. I think that's part of the ambivalent feeling of reading British nature writing, eh. Severed roots.

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