{"product_id":"the-place-of-tides","title":"The Place of Tides","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rebanks's telling of the skilled work and cultural history that he learns from Anna Måsøy is all this otherwise enlightening book needs.'\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rebanks is an extraordinary writer, and \u003cem\u003eThe Place of Tides\u003c\/em\u003e will linger in the mind for a long time.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In these 285 thoughtful, beautifully written pages, James Rebanks shows, better than anything I've read recently, the precise quality of the catastrophe befalling the natural world and also what we might begin to do about it. Humane, beautifully paced, gentle, and strangely compelling, \u003cem\u003eThe Place of Tides\u003c\/em\u003e feels like, not only a modern classic, but one we very much need right now.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Saunders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A beautiful book about the lives we think we're going to lead versus the lives we actually live.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e - \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaula Hawkins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Place of Tides\u003c\/em\u003e is a magical book, at once a lament for a world in danger of disappearing, and a celebration of an indomitable spirit determined to preserve it. James Rebanks has written a quiet yet ringing masterpiece.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Banville\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A magnificent book - wonderfully unlike any other . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Place of Tides\u003c\/em\u003e is big-hearted and transporting, a quietly gripping reckoning with self-sufficiency and interdependence, with the lives that make us and the lives that we make.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Gourevitch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is utterly engaging story telling. The drama, the change, the mystery, the unknown; the details of nature, the moods, the hope and despair; the memories, reflections and learning that emerge out of long lives lived fully: \u003cem\u003eThe Place of Tides\u003c\/em\u003e tells a beautiful story that is profound and moving.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJane Clarke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A vivid portrayal of the fascinating world of the duck women of Norway's Helgeland islands.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim Pears\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I've loved everything about the writing, the characters, the kindness, the landscape, the gentle revelations. It's beautiful -- a really beautiful and necessary book for these difficult, broken times.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSophy Roberts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A tender account ... the greatest joy of this book lies in the descriptions of the northern seascape -- the colours, the Arctic light, the wild things ... wilderness and unknowable places return us to the curiosity of childhood. Our humanity is restored.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTablet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As in his previous books, his prose is simple and clear, his depictions of nature gorgeous ... This book, and Anna's life are inspiring in their simplicity, fortitude and elegance.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This tender, contemplative book ... The Place of Tides washes over readers gently, refreshing us with its moving portrait of a quietly purposeful way of life.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A very beautiful book. A chiselled restraint, a Norse toughness, sharp humour, painful wisdom and alertness not quite of our age.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRory Stewart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"James Rebanks writes like a dream.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonty Don\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Deeply felt and moving ... the friendship in the book is hard won, and all the more beautiful for that. It is the most inspiring book I've read for years.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJenny Linford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Deceptively simple, emotionally surprising, beautiful, and true.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMelissa Harrison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A love letter to the quiet and complex majesty of a little-known landscape and the women that tirelessly tend to it. It moved, humbled and educated me and made a place I have never set my eyes on suddenly vivid and close.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanessa Kisuule\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Place of Tides \u003c\/em\u003eis terrific - so honest and strange. It's somehow about eider ducks, middle age, one woman's breathtaking skill and determination, the collapse of the natural order and everything in between. I think it's Rebanks's best book yet.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSam Knight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Place of Tides reminds readers that small acts of care for our environment can result in great things when done over time. Quietly enchanting, this book offers readers an oasis of calm in our turbulent world.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatherine Hollis, BookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a lovely book, almost dreamlike in its lulling rhythms.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A journey to a new way of being ... on an isalnd 900 miles from Iceland, in a place dictated 'by the coming and going of the tides, ' Rebanks learned, above all, a new rhythm for the rest of his life ... a quiet memoir of profound change.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinary story, gently told. This was just the book I needed.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNigel Slater, author of A Thousand Feasts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A spellbinding story of wildness, healing, and nature. A message we all need to hear, told with immense honesty and vulnerability. Magical!\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulius Roberts, author of The Farm Table\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Unfolding like a Nordic Decameron, this is a book for a wide readership, with spare prose . . . It is a book of bitten beauty, full of keen observations, and, for all its reverence, it is one of reckoning. On the cusp of the Arctic, during a magical harvest, a single-minded farmer is forced to face his own demons.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCountry Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Surprisingly gripping . . . Rebanks excels at describing the raw beauty of the island.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail (UK)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this soulful account, Rebanks reflects on working alongside one of the last traditional 'duck women, ' who care for eider ducks during nesting season, on Norway's Vega Archipelago. . . . A wistful depiction of a vanishing way of life, this will move readers.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I love this book. It has deepened my world considerably, feathered my spiritual nest.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRachel Kushner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The Place of Tides\u003c\/em\u003e is all that I want from a story: poetic, true, and full of feeling.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarcus Mumford, lead singer of Mumford \u0026amp; Sons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In honed prose akin to that of Hemingway, Rebanks weaves a quietly captivating fable about what it means to be true to your roots and your longing to save a dying world.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A fable-like tale, as beautiful and elusive as the idea of home and self it seeks to recover.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Flanagan, Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A transfixing, tender, and open-hearted account of a spring spent with two remarkable people ... Rebanks captures nature's exquisiteness [and] quietly captivates the human heart. . . . It is a beautiful journey.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A profound reflection on the natural world.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"James Rebanks has done a miraculous thing. He takes the reader with him to a stark, remote island on the strangest mission in the toughest circumstances and makes you feel like you're coming home. A profound, transformative, uplifting story.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsabella Tree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[An] enchanting book . . . [Rebanks] writes of his season with the duck women with elegance, acuity and a rare tenderness.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An elegiac tale . . . It is a book of stillness, quiet, vigilance, and the kind of patience that is measured not in hours but in lifetimes.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lyrical and enchanting . . . Rebanks is an extraordinary writer, and \u003cem\u003eThe Place of Tides\u003c\/em\u003e will linger in the mind for a long time.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A quietly profound book. It is a story about a still-essential way of living in the modern world and finding a way to keep going. It is also a deft travelogue to one of the world's wildest seascapes. . . . [Rebanks's] assured narrative paints a picture of a wondrous world. It is one that few of us will ever visit but are all the better for knowing about.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A charismatic portrait of fidelity and the true meaning of home.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNick Offerman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA National Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A modern classic, one we very much need right now.\" -George Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Life\u003c\/i\u003e, a magical work of nonfiction in which James Rebanks reflects on a life-changing summer spent on a remote island off the coast of Norway, where his only companion was an old woman who practiced the ancient tradition of collecting eiderdown from birds that nest on this remarkable landscape each year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe are all in need of lights to follow.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich but had long been in decline. Still, somehow, she seemed to be hanging on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack at home, Rebanks couldn't stop thinking about the woman on the rocks. She was fierce and otherworldly--and yet strangely familiar. Years passed. Then, one day, he wrote her a letter, asking if he could return. Bring work clothes, she replied, and good boots, and come quickly: her health was failing. And so he travelled to the edge of the Arctic to witness her last season on the island.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of that season. It is the story of a unique and ancient landscape, and of the woman who brought it back to life. It traces the pattern of her work from the rough, isolated toil of bitter winter to the elation of the endless summer light, when the birds leave behind their precious down for gathering, like feathered gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlowly, Rebanks begins to understand that this woman and her world are not what he had previously thought. What began as a journey of escape becomes an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge and forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis unforgettable eco-memoir explores the delicate balance between humanity, nature, and the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNordic Travel Writing: \u003c\/b\u003e A lyrical journey to a windswept Arctic island, where the landscape is as formidable and quietly alive as the woman who tends it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn Ancient Tradition: \u003c\/b\u003e An immersive look at a centuries-old craft--nearly extinct--and the solitary life required to keep it alive one season at a time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn Unforgettable Friendship: \u003c\/b\u003e The story of an unexpected bond between a restless writer and a fiercely self-sufficient stranger, forged in her final year on the island.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Meditation on Purpose: \u003c\/b\u003e A moving exploration of what it means to stop running and find meaning in slowness, hard work, and a life rooted in the wild.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/01\/2025 (EAN 9780063434172, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/14\/2025 (EAN 9780063434172, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2025 pg. 17 (EAN 9780063434172, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 07\/12\/2025 (EAN 9780063434172, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eRebanks, James\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Rebanks \u003c\/strong\u003eis a farmer based in the Lake District, where his family have lived and worked for over six hundred years. 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