Forecast: A Diary of the Lost Seasons
Jun 2021 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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272
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Join Joe Shute as he travels across Britain tracing the history of our seasons and discovering how they are changing.
We talk about them. We plan our lives around them. The changing seasons are part of us all. But what happens when the weather changes beyond recognition?
Joe Shute has spent years unpicking Britain's love affair with the weather, poring over the centuries of folklore, customs and rituals our seasons have inspired.
But in recent years Shute has noticed a curious thing: the British seasons are changing far faster and far more profoundly than we realise. Daffodils in December, frogspawn in November, swallows that no longer fly home, floods, wildfires and winters without snow. Nothing is behaving as it should, sending nature into an increasing state of flux.
In Forecast, Shute travels all over Britain tracing the history of the seasons, and discovering the extent to which we are now growing disconnected from them. While documenting these warped rhythms caused by the changing weather, he records the parallels in his personal journey as he and his wife struggle to conceive a child.
This is a book that races to keep up with the march of the seasons as they rapidly change course. It examines how the weather is reshaping the world around us, and asks what happens to centuries of culture, memory and identity when the very thing they subsist on is slipping away.
We talk about them. We plan our lives around them. The changing seasons are part of us all. But what happens when the weather changes beyond recognition?
Joe Shute has spent years unpicking Britain's love affair with the weather, poring over the centuries of folklore, customs and rituals our seasons have inspired.
But in recent years Shute has noticed a curious thing: the British seasons are changing far faster and far more profoundly than we realise. Daffodils in December, frogspawn in November, swallows that no longer fly home, floods, wildfires and winters without snow. Nothing is behaving as it should, sending nature into an increasing state of flux.
In Forecast, Shute travels all over Britain tracing the history of the seasons, and discovering the extent to which we are now growing disconnected from them. While documenting these warped rhythms caused by the changing weather, he records the parallels in his personal journey as he and his wife struggle to conceive a child.
This is a book that races to keep up with the march of the seasons as they rapidly change course. It examines how the weather is reshaping the world around us, and asks what happens to centuries of culture, memory and identity when the very thing they subsist on is slipping away.
Join Joe Shute as he travels across Britain tracing the history of our seasons and discovering how they are changing.
We talk about them. We plan our lives around them. The changing seasons are part of us all. But what happens when the weather changes beyond recognition?
Joe Shute has spent yea...
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About the author
Joe Shute is an author, journalist and weather watcher with a passion for the natural world. He is a senior staff feature writer at The Daily Telegraph where he writes the weekend 'Weather Watch' and 'What to Spot' columns.
Joe studied history at Leeds University and started his career as a trainee reporter on the Halifax Evening Courier before working at The Yorkshire Post as its crime correspondent. He previously wrote A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven, published by Bloomsbury in 2018. He lives with his wife in Sheffield.
@JoeShute / www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/joe-shute/
Joe studied history at Leeds University and started his career as a trainee reporter on the Halifax Evening Courier before working at The Yorkshire Post as its crime correspondent. He previously wrote A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven, published by Bloomsbury in 2018. He lives with his wife in Sheffield.
@JoeShute / www.telegraph.co.uk/
Joe Shute is an author, journalist and weather watcher with a passion for the natural world. He is a senior staff feature writer at The Daily Telegraph where he writes the weekend 'Weather Watch' and 'What to Spot' columns.
Joe studied history at Leeds University and started his career as a trai...
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