RAIN: FOUR WALKS IN ENGLISH WEATHER
Book ID/图书代码： 04560016B91117
English Summary/英文概要： An evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison.
Whenever rain falls, our countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows appear altered, the wildlife behaves differently, and over time the terrain itself is transformed.
In Rain, Melissa Harrison explores our relationship with the weather as she follows the course of four rain showers, in four seasons, across Wicken Fen, Shropshire, the Darent Valley and Dartmoor.
Blending these expeditions with reading, research, memory and imagination, she reveals how rain is not just an essential element of the world around us, but a key part of our own identity too.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 著名小说家、自然作家梅丽莎·哈里森(Melissa Harrison)对英伦潮湿天气下的风景描述和沉思。
每当下雨，我们的乡间就会发生变化。田野、农场、山丘和灌木篱笆墙都变了模样，野生动物的行为也与以往有所不同，随着时间的推移，地形本身也发生了变化。
在本书中，梅丽莎·哈里森探索了我们与天气的关系，她在四个季节里经历了四场阵雨，横跨威肯沼泽、什罗普郡、达林河谷和达特穆尔。
她将这些探险与阅读、研究、记忆和想象结合起来，揭示了雨不仅是我们周围世界的一个基本元素，也是我们自身身份的一个关键部分。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 梅丽莎·哈里森(Melissa Harrison) 1975年生于萨里郡，在牛津大学学习英国文学，1996年以一级荣誉学位(first class honours)毕业。在进入杂志行业前，她在非小说出版行业工作了几年，最终她的第一部小说《土地》(Clay)于2013年1月由布鲁姆斯伯里出版社(Bloomsbury)出版。
2010年，梅丽莎获得约翰·缪尔信托基金会野生写作奖，并于2014年成为格莱斯顿图书馆驻馆作家。作为布里斯托尔创意节的一部分，她首次发表了柯勒律治①文学的演讲，在南岸的艺术节上发表了关于风景和英国特色的演讲，梅丽莎曾在英国广播4台的《开放之书》和广播2台的《艺术秀》节目中作客。
梅丽莎于2015年4月推出的第二部小说“山楂成熟时”，于2016年获得百利女性小说奖，并在2015年入围科斯塔小说奖。此外，作者还是《泰晤士报》自然笔记本（Nature Notes）专栏撰稿作家。梅丽莎对英国景色撰写的沉思录《雨季：英伦风情的四次漫步》于2016年获得温赖特自然与旅游写作奖。
①塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治（Samuel Taylor Coleridge，1772-1834年），英国诗人和评论家，他一生是在贫病交困和鸦片成瘾的阴影下度过的，诗歌作品相对较少。尽管存在这些不利因素，柯勒律治还是坚持创作，确立了其在幻想浪漫诗歌方面的主要浪漫派诗人地位。Melissa Harrison’s first novel, Clay, was published by Bloomsbury in January 2013. It was chosen as an Amazon Rising Star, won the Portsmouth First Fiction award and was named by Ali Smith in the New Statesman as one of her books of the year.
Melissa’s second novel, At Hawthorn Time, (Bloomsbury) was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. It was described by multi-award-winning author Helen Macdonald as "a profoundly unsentimental yet deeply compassionate meditation on searching for myth and meaning, on our need to belong, and the place of history in the history of place".
Rain: Four Walks in English Weather (Faber & Faber) is a short work of non-fiction. ’Rain has never been so interesting or so beautifully described’ - Countryfile Magazine.
Melissa won the John Muir Trust’s ’Wild Writing’ Award in 2010. She was a Writer in Residence at Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, in January 2014, and in Northumberland as a guest of the Hexham Book Festival in October 2015. She delivered one of the inaugural Coleridge Lectures as part of Bristol’s Festival of Ideas, spoke about landscape and Englishness at The Southbank’s Changing Britain festival, and has appeared at the Hay Festival, on Radio 4’s Open Book and Saturday Review, and on The Arts Show on Radio 2. She is Series Editor for four anthologies of writing about the seasons, due to be published throughout 2016.
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