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“Greetings from Almaty!” she writes in her e-mail a few days ago. If British writer Caroline Eden is not at home in Edinburgh, she is most probably traveling the roads of Eastern Europe or Central Asia, and her explorations in different cultures have a special kind of prism – food.
Dozen reasons to read in Autumn in the Sea Library. Books of September, October, November by twelve wonderful writers.
Sea doesn’t care and sea doesn’t listen, it just lets me be in her magnificent presence. When I enter the seaside, I enter a different world.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My interview with British writer Stephen Rutt. His debut book “The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds” is available in the Sea Library.
There's something about flood, something mythic and disturbing, that gets to the heart of our uncertainty about our place on the earth at all.