Mudlarking
Before the inland sea the valley must have been a forest. And those things had happened right under our feet. And it seemed to me sometimes at night that I could feel both the sea and the redwood forest before it.
John Steinbeck • East of Eden
Before walking toward the forest’s edge, I offer a silent goodbye to the gray-green waters of the Pacific.
Caroline Van Hemert • The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
Other beach market or port sites, such as Bantham in south Devon and Longbury Bank near Tenby in South Wales, have been identified by finds of exotica that cannot have been produced in the British Isles. From an unprepossessing sand bank on Cheshire’s Wirralq next to the village of Meols (pronounced Mells), thousands of artefacts have been washed u
... See moreMax Adams • The First Kingdom
Between Nils’s time and Celsius’s sketch of the rock, in 1743, the water level had dropped nearly eight feet. Nils’s island was gradually becoming part of the mainland; today, it is a peninsula. In 2012, the scholar Martin Ekman located the rock that made Nils rich; by then, it was no longer in the sea at all. It stood in a young forest, surrounded... See more