{"product_id":"a-land-by-jacquetta-hawkes-9781915068675","title":"A LAND","description":"\u003cp\u003eLying on the grass in her London garden, the archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes began to imagine the world beneath her: soil, rock and the immense reaches of geological time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom that sense of the land as something living, layered and inseparable from human life came *A Land*, her extraordinary account of the making of Britain and of the people shaped by it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHawkes moves freely between geology, archaeology, history, art and imagination, writing about landscape not as a backdrop to human life, but as something that has formed us physically, culturally and emotionally, just as we have shaped it in return.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1951, in the year of the Festival of Britain, to which Hawkes also contributed, *A Land* became one of the defining works of post-war writing about landscape. More than seventy years later, its sense of deep time and of the intimacy between people and place remains vivid and unusual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of Hawkes's classic has a new introduction by Cal Flyn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jacquetta Hawkes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57723788657013,"sku":"9781915068675","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781915068675.jpg?v=1793792510","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/a-land-by-jacquetta-hawkes-9781915068675","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}