‘When I try to imagine a faultless love,’ wrote WH Auden, ‘what I see is a limestone landscape.’ In this lyrical travelogue, the poet and biographer Fiona Sampson explores four such places: the Slovenian karst, the Cotswold village where she lives, Périgord in France, and Jerusalem. Blending geology, history and ecology, she reveals each landscape’s subtle influence on the lives of its inhabitants.
Limestone Country is a perceptive, lyrical evocation and investigation into four landscapes in Europe and beyond. Seemingly disparate these places are bound together by their limestone geology, by personal experience and Fiona Sampson's unique imagination. Limestone Country delves deep into the heart of these landscapes: the people, wildlife and culture, told through vivid snapshots of daily life, farming routines and encounters with the wild. It is a meditation on the meaning of place, how we shape it and how it shapes us.
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