Brightening from the East

Ken Worpole (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2025
Little Toller Books (Verlag)
978-1-915068-46-0 (ISBN)

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In this new and wide-ranging collection of essays Ken Worpole journeys to the Essex marshlands to discover radical communities, and travels further afield to discover how new ideas filtered into England, always from the east.

In Brightening from the East Ken Worpole explores a unique 'region of the mind' -
the Thames Estuary and the marshland landscapes of the East Anglian shoreline.
In this wide-ranging collection of essays, personal and historical, Worpole
brings us the stories of radical communities, of arcadian dreams among the
shabby plotlands of eastern England, of new ways of living. He ranges further
afield too, writing on Italian cemeteries, Dutch landscape architects and the
English twentieth century folk revival. Here Worpole convincingly argues that
the Essex landscape has always been a refuge for new ideas, and a place where
practical idealism could flourish, a place the world might learn from. Brightening
from the East also contains Worpole's influential essay, 'The New English
Landscape'.

Ken Worpole is a writer and social historian, and the author of many books on architecture, aesthetics, landscape and public policy. A founder member of the think-tanks Demos and Open Democracy, in recent years he has focused on post-industrial settlements, landscapes and communities, together with questions of English and regional identity. He is also the author of No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen (Little Toller 2021).

Erscheinungsdatum	20.03.2025
Zusatzinfo	Black and white photographs throughout
Verlagsort	Wimborne Minster
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-915068-46-0 / 1915068460
ISBN-13	978-1-915068-46-0 / 9781915068460
Zustand	Neuware