The Draw of the Sea

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Rockpoolers seek out sheltered coves in which they can observe the St Piran’s hermit crabs, scarlet and gold cup corals, and snakelocks anemones, as they go about their mysterious lives. I absolutely loved the authors style of writing not only do you feel like your learning so much in a fun way but I felt like I was experiencing them aswell. A beautiful portrait of lives shaped by the swell of ocean and tide—a powerful salt-thread of connection.

As Darke’s widow says to him, these objects “make the whole world seem a whole lot smaller, a lot more connected”. This book is a meaningful and moving work into how we interact with the environment around us, and how it comes to shape the course of our lives. It's beautiful and thoughtfully human, a portrait of those lives that revolve around the swell of ocean and tide. He even has a go at free diving, those amazing people who can hold their breath for minutes at a time. Award-winning artist Jonathan Newey teaches you to transform simple shapes into characterful creatures including dolphins, clownfish, crabs, jellyfish, whales, sharks, turtles and more.

The ocean fires our imagination, provides joy, solace and play but also wields immense destructive power. Across twelve beautifully written interlinked chapters, Menmuir explores the many aspects of our relationship with the sea. It also celebrates the people who go down to the sea and do business in great - or even small - waters. It's grim reading in places, but we do also meet people who are trying to make a difference - and the author admits that there can be a sort of syncronicitous beauty in the bizarre findings from beaches, even in all that plastic. No one from Visit Cornwall will rent, sell or lease this personally identifiable information to other companies or individuals.

Diving deep into a largely unknown territory as ancient as Deep Time itself, he emerges with stories of grief and mermaids, of ghost-plastic and hard-won wisdom, of harpoons and treasure and longing and precarity and the eternal quest for meaning: gifts that evoke both the richness and the strangeness of a precious world within a precious world. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. There’s a wonderful story of the traditional method of hunting conger eels in Scilly – you suspend a small boy in front of the hole in which they live, wait for the eel to wrap itself around him and then pull the boy up. He is the author of the Man-Booker nominated novel and Observer Best Fiction of the year pick,The Many, and Fox Fires. Freedivers take a huge breath of air before plunging into the depths – they look for the stillest, clearest waters in which to commune with the ocean.In fact, I think those of us who have spent a fair part of our lives near water but now find ourselves more landlocked are the ideal readers. The current ‘LOOK INSIDE’ facility above shows a glimpse including the CONTENTS with the 13 titles/topics at the front, following a MAP (Martin Brown) of ‘Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly’. When you can’t be in your favourite place all the time, catch up on the latest stories, upcoming events, holiday ideas, and offers with a newsletter straight to your inbox. In this wonderful and beautifully written book, he tells their stories sensitively and engagingly, with great respect.

I miss and long for the sea when I am not near it and Wyl Menmuir has so beautifully captured that sentiment. This is exactly my kind of non-fiction - a personal account of the natural world starting from a narrow focal point and widening out to everything it touches.

Living in Britain it is impossible to escape the sea and everybody here has to an extent a meaningful relationship with it. As the title says it's about the draw, the hold the sea has many people and how their lives are defined by it. In fact the book itself is a gorgeous item, the cover a treat to the eye, the endpapers marbled, the photos atmospheric and numinous. He describes the feeling he gets by the sea as akin to “what I imagine the cathedral builders sought to achieve when they lifted the clerestories to the sky, creating a huge space to inspire awe and to humble, to lift the heart, a space filled with light and wonder”.

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Perfect for beginners, as well as budding artists, you’ll be amazed how easily you too can bring the ocean to life with this inspiring guide. Set in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, the book is split into 13 different chapters, or short stories told by the author about a different aspect of the sea and coastal life. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. With many of the things I find, like Jane’s mystery woven dolls, the meaning of the messages has been slightly obscured, a radio dial a few notches off from a clear signal. In The Draw of the Sea, Wyl Menmuir investigates just that - the invisible force that pulls some of us to the coast, whether to simply gaze in awe at the vastness of the ocean or to fully immerse ourselves in its watery depths, to dive in, to swim, surf or sail.