Downshifting Lawrence Joseph ancient chalk figures and eerie

ancient chalk figures and eerie suburbs: the ruins of prehistoric pasts and utopian futures

the British Balkan traveller Edith Durham

particularly painting and poetry

and whose new book

Downshifting Lawrence Joseph ancient chalk figures and eerieDownshifting celebrates places where the nourishing values of literature survive; places where the technological revolution and celebrity culture fails to intrude upon enduring and deeply felt human values. Though by no means a reactionary tract for the time, it is not afraid to mourn the loss of value and meaning, to lyricise the enduring, to turn away from the default modern poses of irony and fatalism. It also contains several meditations on the