{"product_id":"the-waterlands-follow-a-raindrop-from-source-to-sea","title":"The Waterlands : Follow a Raindrop from Source to Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e*From the award-winning author of The Seafarers and Wintering comes an utterly original and compelling fascinating exploration of the most miraculous substance on Earth: water. It falls in a moment. When the heaviest droplets of ice can no longer be held, the first raindrop slips from the sky and plunges, down through the damp, cold air, thawing as it plummets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSplashing into the sodden hillside, rainfall merging with river source, it flows for the first time. The Waterlands is a new story of water, revealing its natural rhythms and miraculous power. Follow a raindrop as it flows through diverse waterscapes: river sources in the upland moors; saltmarsh-flanked firths and estuaries; serene and spectacular lochs; crystal-clear chalk streams; blanket bogs that are both land and liquid, a thin skin of peat over millennia-old water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn this epic journey, award-winning writer Stephen Rutt visits these places where life flourishes, revealing how water shapes the land, shapes our lives – and how we shape it in return. Beautifully blending geography, ecology, climate writing and social history, The Waterlands is a captivating retelling of the water cycle, and an urgent call to protect our most essential resource. You’ll never see a raindrop the same way again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Rutt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55559238386049,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0429\/8116\/3166\/files\/9781783969319.jpg?v=1776849500","url":"https:\/\/bookshop.wigtownbookfestival.com\/products\/the-waterlands-follow-a-raindrop-from-source-to-sea","provider":"Wigtown Festival Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}