"Old Weird Albion is America writer Justin Hopper's dark love song to
the English South; a poetic essay interrogating the high, haunted
landscape of the South Downs Way; the memories, myths and forgotten
histories from Winchester to Beachy Head. When someone disappears, when
someone leaps from a cliff and is all-but-erased from memory, what
traces might we find in the crumbling chalk of the cliff face; in the
wind that buffets the edge of this Albion? A skewed alternative to Bill
Bryson, Hopper casts himself as the outsider as he wanders the English
countryside in pursuit of mystical encounters. His journey sees him
joining New Age eccentrics and accidental visionaries on the hunt for
crop circles and druidic stones, discussing the power of nature with
ecotherapists and pagans, tracing the ruins of abandoned settlements and
walking the streets of eerie suburbs. Through a startling revelation of
his own family history, Hopper turns part detective, part memoirist,
tracking the footsteps of his grandfather's first wife, Doris; piecing
together her forgotten history."
The Old Weird Albion - Justin Hopper
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