Salt On Your Tongue: Women and the Sea, Nominiert: Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards - Lonely Planet Debut Travel Writer of the Year, 2020
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In Salt On Your Tongue, a mixture of memoir, social history, literary criticism, biography and nature writing, Charlotte explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages. This book is a walk on the beach with Turner, Shakespeare and the first American shanty singers who set sail from New York Harbor. It’s an ode to our oceans―to the sailors who brave their treacherous waters, to the women who lost their loved ones to the waves, to the creatures that dwell in their depths, to beach trawlers, swimmers, sea birds and mermaids.
In mesmerizing prose, Charlotte Runcie explores how the sea has inspired, fascinated and terrified us, and how she herself fell in love with the deep blue. Navigating through ancient Greek myths, poetry, shipwrecks and folktales, Salt On Your Tongue is about how the wild untameable waves can help us understand what it means to be human.
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Unfortunately this was not what I expected from the description. While there were some bits I enjoyed and the writing is very readable with some beautiful descriptions of the Ocean, there was a bit too much religious references to the sea and the authors experience of her pregnancy. From the description I was hoping for more stories from women and the meaning of the sea to them. Dnf'd at page 165.
Description
In Salt On Your Tongue, a mixture of memoir, social history, literary criticism, biography and nature writing, Charlotte explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages. This book is a walk on the beach with Turner, Shakespeare and the first American shanty singers who set sail from New York Harbor. It’s an ode to our oceans―to the sailors who brave their treacherous waters, to the women who lost their loved ones to the waves, to the creatures that dwell in their depths, to beach trawlers, swimmers, sea birds and mermaids.
In mesmerizing prose, Charlotte Runcie explores how the sea has inspired, fascinated and terrified us, and how she herself fell in love with the deep blue. Navigating through ancient Greek myths, poetry, shipwrecks and folktales, Salt On Your Tongue is about how the wild untameable waves can help us understand what it means to be human.
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Unfortunately this was not what I expected from the description. While there were some bits I enjoyed and the writing is very readable with some beautiful descriptions of the Ocean, there was a bit too much religious references to the sea and the authors experience of her pregnancy. From the description I was hoping for more stories from women and the meaning of the sea to them. Dnf'd at page 165.