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To the River

A Journey Beneath the Surface

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To the River

By: Olivia Laing
Narrated by: Kate Reading
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Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore.

Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.

©2019 Olivia Laing (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Art & Literature Authors Ecosystems & Habitats Environment Literary History & Criticism Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science
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This book really grew on me. It is alive to nature, literature and the things that make us human. It is very funny in places. I enjoyed it hugely.

Follow the river

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I found the trgrtrnces to Virginia Wolf enlightening . Reading this in the southern he.ispher and wishing I could fly. this Uthour knows her topic.

a deeply moving history surprisingly shared

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.