ANNA PAVORD is one of our best loved writers and the author of the internationally bestseller: THE TULIP. Her new book: LANDSKIPPING published in February this year, is a ravishing celebration of landscape – its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise.
In spirit as romantic as rational, Anna explores all the different ways that, through the ages, we have responded to the land.
In the eighteenth century, artists first started to paint English scenery – the Lakes as well as Snowdon, and these paintings attracted a new kind a visitor – the landscape tourist.
Early travel guides sought to capture the beauty and inspiration of a waterfall, a lake, a fell and all were recorded both in words and visually.
While painters painted and writers wrote, en entirely different band of men – the agricultural improvers – also travelled the land and published a series of remarkable commentaries on the state of Agricultural England.
ANNA PAVORD, with her unique talent, explores the many different ways that land was managed and farmed and moving from the rolling hills of Dorset to the peaks of the Scottish Highlands, she celebrates it all.
The Friends of the Bridport Literary Festival and Supporters of the Literary and Scientific Institute are jointly hosting a very special event:
ANNA PAVORD will give an illustrated talk about her exquisite and compelling book LANDSKIPPING
On Monday 11 April at 2.30 pm at The Tithe Barn Symondsbury, Bridport DT6 6HQ
Tickets are £12 and include tea with the author.
Available through the Bridport Tourist Information Centre 01308 424 901 or on the door at The Tithe Barn
Symondsbury Kitchen for and early Lunch: 01308 538 309
