'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
— Financial Times
— Kirkus Review
“A truly remarkable writer”
“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”
“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”
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.
