Philip Marsden
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
Sunday 28 September 2014
11:30am
1 Hour
DurationBlenheim Palace: The Indian Room
Venue£11
Ticket priceAward-winning travel writer and novelist Philip Marsden explores why we react so strongly to certain places. Marsden was inspired to write his new book, Rising Ground, after moving to a remote creek-side farmhouse in Cornwall. He was taken aback by the intensity of his response to the place, and this led him to explore why we react so strongly to places and why layers of mythology build up around particular features in the landscape. His journey took him to the Neolithic landscape of Bodmin Moor, to Arthurian Tintagel, and to the granite tors of the far south-west.
Marsden, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is author of several works of travel, fiction and non-fiction including The Bronski House, The Spirit-Wrestlers, and The Levelling Sea.