{"product_id":"the-living-stones-cornwall-pushkin-press-classics","title":"The Living Stones: Cornwall","description":"\u003cp\u003eA classic travelogue by Britain's foremost female surrealist painter, which immerses the reader in a dreamlike Cornwall where landscape and legend meet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Her responses to the aura of place are keen, and her eye for detail is excitingly sharp” — Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“She is sensitive to the ways of wind and water, the flowers and birds and trees” — Country Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of the 2nd World War, surrealist painter Ithell Colquhoun withdraws from London to Cornwall, searching for a studio and a refuge from the Blitz, as well as from a shattered marriage. So begins a profound and lifelong relationship with Britain's westernmost county. It is a land of granite ridges and lush valleys, surrounded by sea and steeped in myth, where the ancient Celtic past makes contact with the present. There she finds a hut with no running water or electricity, and lovingly brings it to life, creating a haven for her creative pursuits, and slowly coming to think of these rivers, hills and caves, seen in every season, as her true home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn to the sacred and the beautiful, the wild and the weird, Colquhoun writes about Cornwall as a living landscape, where every tree, standing stone and holy well is a palimpsest of folklore - and perhaps a place where everyday reality connects to the world beyond. In prose as gorgeously dreamlike as it is sharply witty, this inimitable artist gives us a travelogue deeply attuned to natural rhythms, local atmosphere and the eerie beauty of a place that is as much legend as it is water and rock.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRHD Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46822550995167,"sku":"9781805330974","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781805330974.jpg?v=1744075787","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/the-living-stones-cornwall-pushkin-press-classics","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}