Philip Marsden
 

'Beneath our feet, if we look closely, are shards of heaven, and overhead are wonders too and everywhere is the ceaseless dance of the universe - endlessly moving, endlessly changing, endlessly mysterious'

From Under a Metal Sky: a journey through minerals, greed and wonder 

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“A lyrical meditation on the riches beneath our feet’’

— Financial Times

Fascinating... an exploration of minerals that gleams with substance and authority.... Marsden’s study yields nuggets of insight into the Big Questions, offered with humility - and girded throughout by some of the loveliest descriptive writing one will read anywhere

— Kirkus Review

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A Voyage of the Imagination

A truly remarkable writer
— Robert Macfarlane
Reading Philip Marsden’s voyage to the Summer Isles is the only time in my life I shall want to be lost at sea. Shimmering, profound, and deeply mesmerising
— John Lewis-Stempel
 
 
 

A Search for the Spirit of Place

Equally entertaining and enlightening... Marsden’s references are glittering. This is a timely volume, describing in beautiful prose the opulence of our natural and human fabric. Guaranteed to fill the windows of Cornish bookshops, it is a superb and educative work which should be read everywhere
— Horatio Clare, Independent
 
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Philip Marsden is the award-winning author of a number of books of history, travel and fiction. His work has been translated into more than fifteen languages. He is involved in a number of conservation projects, both marine and terrestrial, and lives on an old Cornish farm where he is trying to restore biodiversity - a task at least as arduous, time-hungry and ultimately satisfying as writing books.

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