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Chasing Fog Laura Pashby

Chasing Fog By Laura Pashby

Chasing Fog by Laura Pashby


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Summary

A captivating meditation on fog and mist, exploring its role in literature, mythology and history, and why it's disappearing.

Chasing Fog Summary

Chasing Fog: Finding Enchantment in a Cloud by Laura Pashby

At first, I didnt find fog fog found me.

Liminal, transformative and increasingly elusive far from a simple cloud of water droplets, fog is a state of mind. As mist drifted through a copse of trees, turning a familiar place strange and otherworldly, Laura Pashby snapped a photograph and an obsession began.

Pashby hunts for fog, walks and swims in it, explores its often pivotal role in literature, mythology and history, as well as its environmental significance. There has been a 50 per cent drop in 'fog events' in the past fifty years, fog is drifting away without us noticing and the ecological impact could be calamitous.

As she journeys to the foggiest places she can find, Pashby immerses herself in Dartmoors dangerous fog, searches for the Scottish haar, experiences Venices magical mist, tell us the myths behind the River Severns fog and the shipwrecks it hides.

Its easy to get lost in fog, but sometimes its where imperceptible things can be found, including in ourselves. Chasing Fog is a captivating meditation on fog and mist, a love song to weather and natures power to transform.

Chasing Fog Reviews

'A lovely meander through foggy landscapes and their meanings' -- Katherine May
'A charming exploration of fog, mist, haar and haze that captures that dreamy state of mind that accompanies it and the uncanny aspect of low visibility. Laura Pashby guides us across gloomy moors lit by will-o-the-wisps, past clifftop beacons beating out their loyal rhythms, and through the labyrinthine, mist-wreathed streets of Venice. Eerie and evocative' -- Cal Flyn
'An ode to the magic of the unknown, the unpredictable and the unseen; Chasing Fog is both fascinating and gorgeously written. Haunting and beautiful, this surprising mix of nature-writing and memoir draws us intothe strange and nuanced world of fog and reminds us of the potency and potential in moments of dream and drift' -- Rebecca Schiller
'Laura Pashby approaches that most mysterious and misunderstood weather with a photographers eye and a writers curiosity: this clear-sighted and loving ode to fog is a beautiful adventure' -- Alice Vincent
'Pashbys quest "to find a depth of meaning and magic" in fog results in a frequently beguiling and thought-provoking book, one that offers a way of looking at the world and its weather in a subtly different light' * Literary Review *
An exquisite piece of nature writing * i *
Part nature writing, part memoir. It features the same signature writing style that pulls her readers along, as if walking just a step or two behind her as she explores' * Western Daily Press *
'A lushly sensuous exploration of the many possibilities that arise from fog, so vivid that by the end I could feel it clinging to my skin' -- Dr Sharon Blackie

About Laura Pashby

A lifelong bookworm and lover of stories, Laura Pashbygraduated from the University of Bristol with an MA in Modern & Contemporary Poetry. Her obsession with photography began on her15th birthday when her dad gave me an Olympus Trip camera and made their downstairs cloakroom into a home darkroom. She's been taking pictures ever since.Her work has appeared in publicationsincludingThe Simple Things,Ernest Journal, Project Calm, Country Homes & Interiors, Oh Magazine, Metro andLionheart. Shespent three years as the Deputy Editor of independent lifestyle magazine91. You can find her on Instagram @circleofpines.

Additional information

GOR013885093
9781398526990
1398526991
Chasing Fog: Finding Enchantment in a Cloud by Laura Pashby
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Simon & Schuster Ltd
2024-08-29
256
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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