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Once Upon a Raven's Nest
Once Upon a Raven's Nest
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The story of a working-class man from Exmoor, whose lifetime spanned the period of the great acceleration and whose childhood took place in a world exponentially different to our own.
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9781529425024
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Davies, Catrina
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Quercus Publishing
Pub Date
11/04/2024
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Paperback
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400
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'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT
'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUD
Once Upon a Raven's Nest
is the story of a working class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of the planet during the period of its great acceleration towards the current climate emergency.
Born in 1955 to a poor family in Devon Thomas refused to conform. His fierce independence, recklessness and contrariness led not only to scrapes and self-inflicted dangers but to a life enriched by the love of women. Catrina Davies came to know him in his last years and has given his life and times in his own words, creating a rich, pungent language in a knowing, poetic and poignant voice.
We learn of his accumulation of engines, tools and guns, the complexity of his connection to nature, the animals he loved and his desire to hunt them. He recounts the terrible consequences of his fatal attraction to risk and machinery which led to his being paralysed for the last years of his life, confined to a wheelchair, hopelessly dependent but still watching, noticing, recording, loving the world.
The narrative is interwoven with a sequence of factual entries that chart the impending climate catastrophe and the consequences of our collective choices to ignore the warning of an environment on the verge of collapse.
Once Upon A Raven's Nest
is an unforgettable history of a life that is almost lost and an account of the destruction man has wrought on the earth in the time that Hedley worked the land.
'Stunning. Urgent. Unforgettable' TANYA SHADRICK
'This has the unmistakable smell of a classic' CHARLES FOSTER
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'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT
'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUD
Once Upon a Raven's Nest
is the story of a working class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of the planet during the period of its great acceleration towards the current climate emergency.
Born in 1955 to a poor family in Devon Thomas refused to conform. His fierce independence, recklessness and contrariness led not only to scrapes and self-inflicted dangers but to a life enriched by the love of women. Catrina Davies came to know him in his last years and has given his life and times in his own words, creating a rich, pungent language in a knowing, poetic and poignant voice.
We learn of his accumulation of engines, tools and guns, the complexity of his connection to nature, the animals he loved and his desire to hunt them. He recounts the terrible consequences of his fatal attraction to risk and machinery which led to his being paralysed for the last years of his life, confined to a wheelchair, hopelessly dependent but still watching, noticing, recording, loving the world.
The narrative is interwoven with a sequence of factual entries that chart the impending climate catastrophe and the consequences of our collective choices to ignore the warning of an environment on the verge of collapse.
Once Upon A Raven's Nest
is an unforgettable history of a life that is almost lost and an account of the destruction man has wrought on the earth in the time that Hedley worked the land.
'Stunning. Urgent. Unforgettable' TANYA SHADRICK
'This has the unmistakable smell of a classic' CHARLES FOSTER
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