Field Work
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
What does it take to make a living from the land in modern Britain?
Bella Bathurst is a writer and photographer celebrated for her distinctive literary works. Her writing often delves into the unusual aspects of history and human experience, revealing a deep fascination with themes connected to Scotland and its unique heritage. Bathurst skillfully blends meticulous research with compelling narrative, offering readers fresh perspectives on both familiar and lesser-known stories.
What does it take to make a living from the land in modern Britain?
In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next twelve years deafness shaped her life, until, in 2009, everything changed again. 'Sound' draws on this extraordinary experience, exploring what it is like to lose your hearing and - as Bella eventually did - to get it back, and what that teaches you about listening and silence, music and noise.
An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds.
You can keep the internet. You can keep the computer and the mobile phone. In the bicycle humanity has its most perfect invention of the last three hundred years and in Bella Bathurst the bike has found the best and brightest booster so far. BORIS JOHNSON
A group of teenaged schoolgirls are on a field trip to the Forest of Dean, where the the reader bears witness to the development and disintegration of relationships. Nothing is quite what you expect. Soon enough, something dark and sinister begins to move underneath the surface.
Balla Bathurst beschreibt die Entstehung der schottischen Leuchttürme im 18./19. Jahrhundert und die Gefahren der Seefahrt. Sie erzählt auch von der Ingenieursfamilie Stevenson, die den Leuchtturm-Bau prägte, und verbindet Technik- und Seefahrtgeschichte mit einer Familiensaga.