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Bourne Joanne
Flint A Lithic Love Letter
Flint A Lithic Love Letter
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Description: Vivid personal upbeat makes you feel her happiness - Maggie Gee A lithic love letter Joanne Bourne has been in awe of flint as long as she can remember. It was all around her where she grew up in Kent: used for garden walls to edge drives and weight dustbin lids as well as to build pubs churches Roman villas and castles. For centuries it was the only building stone available. It is also magical. Made from the remains of plankton and sea sponges it is second only in hardness to a diamond and can be used to make fire. Part of human development for three million years it was used as a weapon to hunt and in war and hung as protection against thunderbolts and fairies. In a deeply personal love letter to this extraordinary 'biogenic rock Bourne traces its geological architectural and social history and invites us to roam with her in search of it on her beloved North Downs. Fusing science poetry history and a profound love of landscape this is her heartfelt thoroughly persuasive tribute to the stone she calls 'an art project of the great divine'.
Title: Flint A Lithic Love Letter
Author(s): Bourne Joanne
Publisher: Eye Books
Barcode: 9781785634086
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 9/17/2024
Category: Rocks, Minerals & Fossils
Description: Vivid personal upbeat makes you feel her happiness - Maggie Gee A lithic love letter Joanne Bourne has been in awe of flint as long as she can remember. It was all around her where she grew up in Kent: used for garden walls to edge drives and weight dustbin lids as well as to build pubs churches Roman villas and castles. For centuries it was the only building stone available. It is also magical. Made from the remains of plankton and sea sponges it is second only in hardness to a diamond and can be used to make fire. Part of human development for three million years it was used as a weapon to hunt and in war and hung as protection against thunderbolts and fairies. In a deeply personal love letter to this extraordinary 'biogenic rock Bourne traces its geological architectural and social history and invites us to roam with her in search of it on her beloved North Downs. Fusing science poetry history and a profound love of landscape this is her heartfelt thoroughly persuasive tribute to the stone she calls 'an art project of the great divine'.
Title: Flint A Lithic Love Letter
Author(s): Bourne Joanne
Publisher: Eye Books
Barcode: 9781785634086
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 9/17/2024
Category: Rocks, Minerals & Fossils