- Publisher: Birlinn
- Year: 2020
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 320pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 239x161mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.6kg
- ISBN: 9781780276939
- Product code: 517983
The Fresh and the Salt
The Story of the Solway
Ann Lingard New Hardback Illustrated
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‘A crooked finger of water reaching far inland from the fist of the Irish Sea, apparently prising Scotland away from England’: Ann Lingard explores both sides of the Solway and both the natural and human evolution of the Firth. Mudshrimps on intertidal shores, grazing animals on the saltmarshes, fishermen, peat-cutters, the red sandstone quarries, and marine life around the bases of wind turbines are all part of this naturalist’s investigation of Solway, past and present.
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Shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year
Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly influenced by their waters and shores.
The Solway Firth - the crooked finger of water that both unites and divides Scotland and England - is a beautiful yet unpredictable place and one of the least-industrialised natural large estuaries in Europe. Its history, geology and turbulent character have long affected the way its inhabitants, both human and non-human, have learnt to live along and within its ever-changing margins.
Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly influenced by their waters and shores.
The Solway Firth - the crooked finger of water that both unites and divides Scotland and England - is a beautiful yet unpredictable place and one of the least-industrialised natural large estuaries in Europe. Its history, geology and turbulent character have long affected the way its inhabitants, both human and non-human, have learnt to live along and within its ever-changing margins.
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‘A crooked finger of water reaching far inland from the fist of the Irish Sea, apparently prising Scotland away from England’: Ann Lingard explores both sides of the Solway and both the natural and human evolution of the Firth. Mudshrimps on intertidal shores, grazing animals on the saltmarshes, fishermen, peat-cutters, the red sandstone quarries, and marine life around the bases of wind turbines are all part of this naturalist’s investigation of Solway, past and present.
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