Christopher Somerville

Collected notes from avid walker Christopher Somerville’s treks through the British countryside. In Christopher Somerville’s workroom is a case of shelves that holds four hundred and fifty notebooks. Their pages are creased and stained with mud, blood, flattened insects, beer glass rings, smears of plant juice, and gallons of sweat. Everything Somerville has written about walking the British countryside has...

A thousand-mile, three-billion-year journey that tells the story of how the land beneath our feet shapes our past, present, and future from the author of The January Man and Ships of Heaven. Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville, author of The January Man and Ships of Heaven, sets out to discover how the land beneath...