Coming soon: Ann C. Colley's Solitary Walks along the East Anglia Coast to be published by Amazon Press.
Also stay tuned for the book's audio-visual publication on YouTube and on Audible.
Solitary Walks along the East Anglia Coast is about the seaside landscape and communities through which I wandered alone during the autumnal and winter months of 2019-20 when I was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. Weather permitting, on weekends I took the train from Cambridge to Cromer, Great Yarmouth, Felixstowe, Lowestoft, and Southwold. The book documents my experiences and thoughts while rambling through these coastal areas during seasons when such resorts are normally shut and only a chance figure wanders on the sands. Woven into the book's fabric are details borrowed from a location's history. So too are references to the seaside town's cultural heritage, to its literary figures, painters, and musicians. The result is an unsettling narrative that creates a portrait of once popular seaside areas along the East Anglia coast that are now simultaneously not only sources of natural beauty and enchantment but also sad reminders of loss, destruction, and neglect.
Also stay tuned for the book's audio-visual publication on YouTube and on Audible.
Solitary Walks along the East Anglia Coast is about the seaside landscape and communities through which I wandered alone during the autumnal and winter months of 2019-20 when I was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. Weather permitting, on weekends I took the train from Cambridge to Cromer, Great Yarmouth, Felixstowe, Lowestoft, and Southwold. The book documents my experiences and thoughts while rambling through these coastal areas during seasons when such resorts are normally shut and only a chance figure wanders on the sands. Woven into the book's fabric are details borrowed from a location's history. So too are references to the seaside town's cultural heritage, to its literary figures, painters, and musicians. The result is an unsettling narrative that creates a portrait of once popular seaside areas along the East Anglia coast that are now simultaneously not only sources of natural beauty and enchantment but also sad reminders of loss, destruction, and neglect.
