Sea Bean

A WATERSTONES NATURE AND TRAVEL BEST BOOK OF 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT NATURE WRITING PRIZE 2023 ''Modern, revealing and restorative, a coastal treasure'' Amy Liptrot ''Like its talismanic title, Huband''s voice is distinct and singular. A gorgeous reckoning with the sea, islands and mythology'' Sinead Gleeson ''A wild melding of body and landscape. A deep, immersive, storm-tossed read'' Helen Jukes ''As vital and complex as the oceans themseleves'' Joanna Pocock A powerful journey of sea and self, trial and hope on the islands of Shetland On the storm-tossed beaches of the Shetland Archipelago, Sally Huband is searching. A message in a bottle, a mermaid''s purse, a lobster trap tag, each find connects her more deeply with our oceans. But it is Sally''s quest for a fabled sea bean that unlocks the myths of these islands and carries her through chronic illness towards a new and more resilient self.

About the author

Sally Huband was born in Bristol in 1974. A writer and naturalist, she received a Masters in Conservation from University College London and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. For her doctorate she combined ecology and ethnography to research the butterflies of hay meadow habitats in the Romanian Carpathians. She is a recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award, and her work has been published in Antlers of Water and Archipelago - A Reader. Sally lives in the Shetland Islands with her daughter, son and husband. Sea Bean is her first book.

Product details

• Authors: Sally Huband, Huband Sally
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.04.2024
• EAN: 9781804940556
• ISBN: 978-1-80494-055-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Europe; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, NATURE / Animals / Marine Life, natural history, Shetland Islands, Applied ecology, Pollution & threats to the environment, Sea life and the seashore: general interest, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Social groups, communities and identities, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)