Between the Salt and the Ash : A Journey into the Soul of Northumbria

• Autore: Morris-Campbell Jake
• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 pages)
• Disciplina: 942.8
• Soggetto topico: Travel / Special Interest / Hikes & Walks
• Soggetto non controllato: Amy Liptrot; Bamburgh; Boldon Book; Camino de Santiago; Camino; Dan Richards; Durham Cathedral; Lindisfarne; North East England; Northumbria; Northumbrian coast; Ondaatje Prize; Royal Society of Literature; Saint Bede; Saint Cuthbert; The Northumbrians; The Outrun; Venerable Bede; Wainwright prize; faith and religion; golden age; heritage; mining communities; oral tradition; pilgrimage; place writing; poetry; post-industrial North East; psychogeography; saints; the North; walking
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Epigraphs -- Prologue: First foot -- Introduction: Lights of the North -- Part I. The sea on sanded feet -- The compass takes its weigh -- Coastline of castles -- Salt pans and sand dunes -- The Spine Road -- Harvest from the deep -- Tirtha: Tyne -- Part II. Stringing Bedes -- Following the Don -- The Ash Path -- Ghosts of the East End -- What kingdom without common feasting? -- Light moved on -- The big meeting -- Tirtha: Wear -- Davy -- Coda -- Glossary of Northumbrian dialect terms -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Jake Morris-Campbell sets out on a pilgrimage from Lindisfarne to Durham Cathedral, exploring thirteen-hundred years of social change and asking what stories the North East can tell about itself in the wake of Christianity and coal.
• ISBN: 9781526175366; 1526175363; 9781526175380; 152617538X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911132914303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II