Rain
Subtitle: four walks in English weather
By: Melissa Harrison
Contributors: National Trust (Great Britain)
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780571328949
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Country life; Rain and rainfall; Landscapes; Description and travel
Description: Almost every day, as natural and inevitable as breathing, weather fronts form, clouds gather and rain falls, changing how the English countryside looks, smells and sounds and the way the living things in it behave. It alters the landscape itself, too, dissolving ancient rocks, deepening river channels and moving soil from place to place. Rain is co-author of our living countryside; it is also a part of our deep internal landscape. Complain as we may, it is as essential to our sense of identity as it is to our soil. With a national obsession, a frequent inconvenience and an agricultural necessity, rain is what makes this land so green and pleasant; it's also what swells rivers, floods farmland and drives people out of their homes. But because it sends most of us scurrying indoors, few people witness what actually happens out in the landscape on a wet afternoon. Novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison visited four parts of the English countryside in showery weather and, when others looked apprehensively at the sky and went indoors, put on waterproofs and headed out. In Rain, she blends these expeditions with reading, research, memory and a little conjecture in order to follow the course of four rain-showers as they pass over English soil.
Notes: "National Trust."

Originally published: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-104).
Table of contents: title: Wicken Fen, January; title: Shropshire, April; title: The Darent Valley, August; title: Dartmoor, October.