To the river : a journey beneath the surface / Olivia Laing.

  • Laing, Olivia
Date:
2017
  • Books

About this work

Description

To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked. Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape and how ghosts never quite leave the place they love.

Publication/Creation

Edinburgh : Canongate, 2017.

Physical description

281 pages : black and white illustrations, map ; 20 cm.

Notes

"First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Canongate Books, Ltd"--Title page verso.

Contents

List of Illustrations -- I. Clearing Out -- II. At the Source -- III. Going Under -- IV. Wake -- V. In the Flood -- VI. The Lady Vanishes -- VII. Bede's Sparrow -- VIII. Salvage -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    ZDF.4414.AI
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1786891581
  • 9781786891587