{"product_id":"9781804472316","title":"These Envoys of Beauty : A Memoir - Anna Vaught","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNature has not been my cure. It has been my inspiration, teacher and companion. I am not better, but I have never been alone.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese Envoys of Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e�is a carefully crafted compendium of essays in which Dr Anna Vaught explores her relationship with the natural world, how it feeds her imagination and has given her hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003eGrowing up in a rural setting, and at times in extremis, nature was a centring power on Anna's early years - wishing trees, talking streams - and she explores how an enduring love of foraging, a sensual consideration of how things smell, licking the rain from leaves, drinking, growing and cooking, has shaped her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify;\"\u003eOver the course of twelve essays, as herbs spill out and roots dig in, Anna's relationship with the natural world becomes a lens for exploring themes of loneliness, depression and trauma, and she discusses how these great systems of healing and sustenance continue to exert their power decades later.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Vaught","offers":[{"title":"Default Title \/ 15\/07\/2026 \/ Autobiography: literary","offer_id":57208808604023,"sku":"9781804472316","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781804472316.jpg?v=1782129424","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781804472316","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}