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Wind Resistance

Wind Resistance

Paperback (16 Nov 2017)

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Publisher's Synopsis

'...unlike anything else I’ve read or heard this year'
Robert Macfarlane
Best Books of 2017, The Guardian

An immersive musical essay. A meditation on sanctuary. A moor walker's journal. A personal memoir of maternity. An archaeology of flight science and football, medieval medicine and compassion. A wonder tale.

Karine Polwart's Wind Resistance is co-produced with the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and was originally presented in association with Edinburgh International Festival 2016, supported through the Scottish Government's Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund.

Winner of the Best Music and Sound Award at the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) 2017.

About the Publisher

Faber & Faber

Faber and Faber is one of the last of the great independent publishing houses in London. With the great depth of its backlist, featuring books by no fewer than twelve Nobel Laureates and six Booker Prize-winners, a thriving frontlist and ever-growing e-book list, and new ventures including the print-on-demand Faber Finds imprint, Faber Digital (publisher of the award-winning The Waste Land for iPad App), Faber Academy (the creative writing school), as well as Faber Factory Powered by Constellation, and Faber Factory Plus, the company continues to go from strength to strength.

Book information

ISBN: 9780571345854
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Pub date:
DEWEY: 824.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 96
Weight: 76g
Height: 198mm
Width: 127mm
Spine width: 5mm