{"product_id":"a-view-from-a-hill","title":"A View From A Hill","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA View from a Hill\u003cspan\u003e is a photobook about the English landscape. Or rather: the layers of history and narrative partly discernible in the land, and the sense of discomfort and unease they can engender in a viewer; a feeling that the writer Robert Macfarlane describes as English eerie, “the skull beneath the skin of the countryside”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"...The book uses extracts from the short story “\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eView\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFrom\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eHill\u003c\/span\u003e” by MR James (1863-1936), originally published in 1925. The story concerns\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epeculiar pair of binoculars. Through them, the landscape remains the same but is seen at\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epoint previous in its history.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003elost abbey is viewed in its full splendour and gibbets adorn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003enearby hilltop.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e...\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIt’s this sense of time slippage that links the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethrough James’ uncanny fieldglasses with the images in the book... These aren’t 'picturesque' views of the sort described by the landscape theorist Uvedale Price (1747-1829) – this is the English landscape as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003ea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econvoluted mess of grubby banalities and casual terrors, stuck in its own time warp...\" \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e- Adam Clitheroe\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Amber Online","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":49471934038154,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/4200\/files\/Aviewfromahill_cover1.jpg?v=1780052832","url":"https:\/\/shop.amber-online.com\/products\/a-view-from-a-hill","provider":"Side","version":"1.0","type":"link"}