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The Place of Tides by James Rebanks

• The Place of Tides
• James Rebanks
• Page: 304
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780063434172
• Publisher: HarperCollins

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“The Place of Tides feels like, not only a modern classic, but one we very much need right now.” –George Saunders  From perhaps the preeminent nature writer of our time and the acclaimed author of Pastoral Song and The Shepherd’s Life, a magical work of nonfiction in which James Rebanks reflects on a life-changing summer spent on a remote island off the coast of Norway, where his only companion was an old woman who practiced the ancient tradition of collecting eiderdown from birds that nest on this remarkable landscape each year. We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich but had long been in decline. Still, somehow, she seemed to be hanging on. Back at home, Rebanks couldn’t stop thinking about the woman on the rocks. She was fierce and otherworldly—and yet strangely familiar. Years passed. Then, one day, he wrote her a letter, asking if he could return. Bring work clothes, she replied, and good boots, and come quickly: her health was failing. And so he travelled to the edge of the Arctic to witness her last season on the island. This is the story of that season. It is the story of a unique and ancient landscape, and of the woman who brought it back to life. It traces the pattern of her work from the rough, isolated toil of bitter winter to the elation of the endless summer light, when the birds leave behind their precious down for gathering, like feathered gold. Slowly, Rebanks begins to understand that this woman and her world are not what he had previously thought. What began as a journey of escape becomes an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge and forgiveness.

The Place of Tides by James Rebanks Review - Miranda's Notebook
Rebanks travels to a remote island off the west coast of Norway, hoping to reconnect with Anna Måsøy, one of Norway's last 'duck women.'
The Place of Tides: Rebanks, James: 9780063434172 - Amazon.com
This book tells the story of a fast diminishing, simple and almost heroically tough way of life in the Norwegian archipelago. The fact that the story is largely .
The Place of Tides - HarperCollins Publishers
“The Place of Tides is a magical book, at once a lament for a world in danger of disappearing, and a celebration of an indomitable spirit determined to .
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Rebanks visited a Norwegian island with its one remaining “duck woman”, a woman who tended the eider who nested there, kept them safe from predators as far as .
The Place of Tides by James Rebanks, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble®
A magical work of nonfiction in which James Rebanks reflects on a life-changing summer spent on a remote island off the coast of Norway.
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book The Place of Tides. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked .
The Place of Tides - Penguin Books
James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild ducks and gathering their down.
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The Lakeland shepherd heads to a Norwegian island where eiderdown is harvested to learn lessons about nature and humanity.
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The Place of Tides is the humbling and inspiring story of Anna, a 'duck woman', who dedicates herself to an island's population of eider ducks. James visits to .
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The book is an account of the time Rebanks spent on Fjærøy, a tiny, usually uninhabited island in the Vega archipelago on Norway's west coast, .

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