Rain

An evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison.

Whenever rain falls, our countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows appear altered, the wildlife behaves differently, and over time the terrain itself is transformed.

In Rain, Melissa Harrison explores our relationship with the weather as she follows the course of four rain showers, in four seasons, across Wicken Fen, Shropshire, the Darent Valley and Dartmoor.

Blending these expeditions with reading, research, memory and imagination, she reveals how rain is not just an essential element of the world around us, but a key part of our own identity too.

O meditatie evocatoare asupra peisajului englez pe vreme umeda de catre renumita romanciera si scriitoare in natura, Melissa Harrison. Ori de cate ori cade ploaia, peisajul nostru se schimba. Campurile, fermele, dealurile si gardurile vii apar modificate, viata salbatica se comporta diferit si, in timp, terenul in sine se transforma. In ploaie, Melissa Harrison exploreaza relatia noastra cu vremea in timp ce urmeaza cursul a patru averse de ploaie, in patru anotimpuri Wicken Fen, Shropshire, Valea Darent si Dartmoor. Amestecand aceste expeditii cu lectura, cercetare, memorie si imaginatie, ea dezvaluie cum ploaia nu este doar un element esential al lumii din jurul nostru, ci si o parte cheie a propriei noastre identitati.