21st-Century Yokel (Paperback / Softback)Tom Cox

  • Paperback / Softback
  • 416 Pages / Published 21 Mar 2019
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  • ISBN: 9781783527397
  • Publisher: Unbound

Description

‘Glorious – funny and wry and wise, and utterly its own lawmaker’ Robert Macfarlane’A rich, strange, oddly glorious brew’ GuardianLonglisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 201821st-Century Yokel is not quite nature writing, not quite a family memoir, not quite a book about walking, not quite a collection of humorous essays, but a bit of all five. Thick with owls and badgers, oak trees and wood piles, scarecrows and ghosts, and Tom Cox’s loud and excitable dad, this book is full of the folklore of several counties – the ancient kind and the everyday variety – as well as wild places, mystical spots and curious objects. Emerging from this focus on the detail are themes that are broader and bigger and more important than ever.

Tom’s writing treads a new path, one that has a lot in common with a rambling country walk; it’s bewitched by fresh air and big skies, intrepid in minor ways, haunted by weather and old stories and the spooky edges of the outdoors, restless and prone to a few detours, but it always reaches its destination in the end.

Additional information

Weight 370 g
Dimensions 136 × 30 mm
ISBN-13

9781783527397

Publisher

Unbound

Imprint

Unbound Digital

Date of Publication

21 Mar 2019

By (author)

Tom Cox

Pages

416

Format

Paperback / softback

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