A review by margaret21
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place by Philip Marsden

4.0

I loved this book. I picked it up because it describes itself as 'a search for the spirit of place'. Even though I hardly know Cornwall at all, I was drawn into his research about past lives, past explorers and lovers of the county he himself has explored exhaustively. This book offers cultural history, nature writing, a bit of personal history, all of which combine to make a richly satisfying account of a county now for me definitely worth exploring. And which goes some way to accounting for the 'spirit of place', so strongly evoked in the county he loves.