Edgeland av Sasha Swire

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<p><b>From the bestselling author of <i>Diary of an MP''s Wife </i>comes a beautiful discovery of Britain''s great coastal path</b><br><br>In <i>Edgeland, </i><i>the </i>political diarist Sasha Swire escapes the confines of Westminster to walk the northern stretch of the South West Coast Path. Starting at Minehead in Somerset, she follows the well-trodden path to Land''s End in Cornwall, walking it in sections over a decade-long period, returning each year like a migratory bird.<br><br>The result is an immersive, beguiling and literary exploration of one of the most enigmatic, beautiful and popular coastlines on earth. It is also a contemplative and very personal response to a story about our English shore from pre-Celtic times to the present day; of the upheaval of rocks; of astonishing botany; of pilgrimage and customs; of the exploitation of resources and of dangers to come.<br><br>Swire identifies how important edges are to us as she walks, not only in how we see our world but in o