Rising Ground by Philip Marsden - Signed Copy

Rising Ground : A Search for the Spirit of Place 

Philip Marsden joined us on stage for our inaugural Heligan Homecoming Festival: a celebration of music, literature, art, culture and food set in the enchanting Lost Gardens of Heligan. 

When Philip Marsden moved to a remote, creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to wonder why we react so strongly to certain places and set him off on a journey on foot westwards to Land's End through one of the most myth-rich regions of Europe.

From the Neolithic ritual landscape of Bodmin Moor to the Arthurian traditions at Tintagel, from the mysterious china-clay region to the granite tors and tombs of the far south-west, Marsden's journey offers a profound meditation on landscape, history and belonging.