New Title (available from 10th November 2008)
The Living Coast: An Aerial View of Britain's Shoreline
Photography by Adrian Warren & Dae Sasitorn
Text by Christopher Somerville
click above picture to see the entire book page by page!
published by Last Refuge, Nov 2008, hardback, 20 cm x 22 cm, 384 pages,
386 colour photographs, text, maps, index,
ISBN 978-0-9558666-0-9, RRP £14.99
Britain possesses one of the most remarkable and varied coastlines in the world, with its richness in geology and human history on display. Since the dawn of time the sea has been sculpting the rocks, sands and marshes, constantly changing the shape of the coastline and the inhabitants of Britain have adapted, defended, sometimes surrendered it or recaptured it in response to the forces of nature. The Living Coast brilliantly celebrates this dynamic interplay between sea, land and people in 376 sumptuous images from the air - a seagull’s-eye view round the 9,000 miles of British coast, from Land’s End to the wave-pounded isles and ancient rocks of the far north; the receding shores and sensationally beautiful estuaries of the east; and the familiar chalk cliffs, crumbling Jurassic coast and drowned river valleys of the south.
Adrian Warren, Dae Sasitorn and Christopher Somerville are uniquely qualified - Christopher Somerville is one of the UK’s best-known writers on walking and travel, with a particular expertise in Britain’s coast (he wrote the books for the BBC COAST series), while Adrian Warren and Dae Sasitorn are internationally celebrated for their stunning and poetic aerial photographs of the landscape of these islands.
