Widdershins Walk: Round the Edge of Reading by Peter Driver & Geoff Sawers

A project by local artists and writers Peter Driver and Geoff Sawers that encompasses an anti-clockwise walk around the circumference of Reading, divided into four quarters and four seasons. Widdershins Walk: Round the Edge of Reading is a series of reflections on the history, natural history and archaeology of the town's limits and edge spaces, meditations on what the town is and will be. It is richly illustrated with drawings, paintings, woodcuts and photographs all made along the journey.

203mm x 254 mm. Softback, 126 pages.


Reviews:

• “The beautiful sentences are at turns caring, archly funny, and deeply informed. The biological details will draw interest of scientists. The discoveries of antiquities were fun to read.”
• “I’m really enjoying it … am trying to eke it out to last as long as possible…”
• “A lovely, affirming book … the text is superb and the illustrations are absolutely beautiful.”
• “A lovely project, tooling around the bounds of Reading with observant and knowledgable guides”
• “… a love letter to the nature on our doorstep”