We are excited to have award-winning naturalist and author Stephen Rutt as our Walking Writers Salon guest in June.
Too long have we taken water for granted – it is a crucial element that keeps our world alive, without it there is no life. Following the path of a raindrop to the sea, from the boggy springs of Highland Scotland, through the valleys, the creeks, the marshes to the sea, naturalist and birder Stephen Rutt walks us through all the wet patches, lyrically accompanying streams and rivers as they rush and meander through the landscape.
“Stephen Rutt’s The Waterlands couldn’t be more timely. In an age of floods, droughts, polluted rivers and shrinking lakes, this compelling and imaginative retelling of the water cycle beautifully illuminates the vital importance of water and wetlands to all life on earth. It’s an essential book for our times. You’ll never see a raindrop the same way again.” – Julian Hoffman, author of Lifelines
Walking Writers Salons are hour-long events in which you will get to meet a Walking Writer and learn from them how they weave writing and walking, and how they interpret their surroundings. Each Salon will include a discussion with the author, inviting questions from the audience, and may include a short quiz or other challenge, in which a winner will receive a prize. We are very grateful to Elliott & Thompson publishers for offering two complimentary e-books of The Waterlands as prizes.
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The Waterlands
From the award-winning author of The Seafarers and Wintering comes an utterly original and compelling fascinating exploration of the most miraculous substance on Earth: water. It falls in a moment. When the heaviest droplets of ice can no longer be held, the first raindrop slips from the sky and plunges, down through the damp, cold air, thawing as it
Find Your London: Tree or False?
Devised by Andrew Stuck of the Museum of London, this walkshop became a regular event as part of the Mayor of London’s London Tree Week, and subsequent Urban Tree Festivals. Everyone has heard ‘an old wives’ tale’ about a certain tree species, some of which have a layer of truth within them, others are downright
• Walking the blue and the green
We welcome back Martyn Howe as a Walking Writers Salon guest to celebrate his new book The Coast is Our Compass. Why are we drawn to a place where the land meets the sea? And what deeper truths emerge when these instincts come together in a journey around England’s shoreline? The Coast is Our Compass
• • Beneath the Dreaming Spires
Five years in the making, A Certain Logic of Expectations is a surprising, intriguing photo narrative of a well-known university-dominated city, created by Mexican photographer Arturo Soto. Soto studied at Oxford as a doctoral student, traversing the city incognito, capturing the quirkiness of British suburbia, a counter-narrative to the tourism blurbs that often quote Victorian
• • Walking towards a home in Greece
When author Julian Hoffman first arrived in Greece’s remote Prespa region, his Greek was “almost non-existent.” Walking became a form of literacy for him—a way to learn the language of the land by tracing the steps of others, reading stone walls, abandoned houses, plant communities, and animal tracks. “Walking was a way in,” he says,
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