Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach- inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations- mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner.

This is a series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, Strands is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam, about mutability and transformation - about sea-change .

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. xi)
• Spring
• The Star of Hope (p. 3)
• Mermaid's Purse (p. 23)
• Prozac (p. 30)
• Gooseberries and Jelly (p. 35)
• The Underworld (p. 49)
• Black Gold (p. 54)
• Summer
• Denatured (p. 71)
• Poor Man's Asparagus (p. 85)
• Aphrodite (p. 89)
• The Albatross and the Toothbrush (p. 103)
• Swarm (p. 119)
• Old Seafarer (p. 122)
• Autumn
• Drifters (p. 129)
• Sea Potato (p. 140)
• Come in, Number 189 (p. 143)
• Stella Maris (p. 147)
• Squirt (p. 156)
• Queen's Cup (p. 161)
• Winter
• Deep Freeze (p. 179)
• SOS to the World (p. 183)
• First-footing (p. 197)
• Rough Lords (p. 202)
• White Horses (p. 215)
• Time Travel (p. 218)
• Postscript (p. 236)
• Acknowledgements (p. 238)