A memoir about silence, from the mysterious things the adults didn’t talk about during his childhood, to the vast silences of the Arctic that have occupied so much of his own adult life as writer and film maker.
Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic
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£20.00
Edition:Hardback978057137093121/07/2022
Categories: 08. Summer Books 2022: Travel, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Summer Books 2022, Travel
Tags: Memoir, Northbound
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