Flint
eBook - ePub

Flint

a lithic love letter

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Flint

a lithic love letter

About this book

'A very British love-letter to the beauty of flint' Daily Telegraph

Joanne Bourne has been in awe of flint as long as she can remember.

It was all around her where she grew up in Kent: used for garden walls, to edge drives and weight dustbin lids, as well as to build pubs, churches, Roman villas and castles. For centuries it was the only building stone available.

It is also magical. Made from the remains of plankton and sea sponges, it is second only in hardness to a diamond and can be used to make fire. Part of human development for three million years, it was used as a weapon to hunt and in war, and hung as protection against thunderbolts and fairies.

In a deeply personal love letter to this extraordinary 'biogenic' rock, Bourne traces its geological, architectural and social history and invites us to roam with her in search of it on her beloved North Downs.

Fusing science, poetry, history and a profound love of landscape, this is her heartfelt, thoroughly persuasive tribute to the stone she calls 'an art project of the great divine'.

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Information

Publisher
Eye Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781785634086
eBook ISBN
9781785634093
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
History of Architecture

Table of contents

  1. chapter one: DOG SKULL AFTERNOON
  2. chapter two: FLINT: A LOVE STORY
  3. chapter three: JOHN LUBBOCK AND ME
  4. chapter four: HOW TO IDENTIFY HUMANLY WORKED FLINT or Some of my Best Friends are Knappers
  5. chapter five: CHALKY LUGGITT
  6. chapter six: FIELD OF THE GHOST RIVER
  7. chapter seven: STRANGE MAGIC
  8. chapter eight: PARAMOUDRA DREAMING
  9. chapter nine: INSECTAGEDDON
  10. chapter ten: THE FIELD OF STONE COFFINS
  11. chapter eleven:GOING HOME
  12. Glossary
  13. Further Reading
  14. Acknowledgements