📗 Libro en inglés SALT ON YOUR TONGUE

An ode to the ocean and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages In mesmerising prose she explores how the sea has inspired fascinated and terrified us and how she herself fell in love with the deep blue This book is a walk on the beach with Turner with Shakespeare with the Romantic Poets and shanty singers It s an ode to our oceans to the sailors who brave their treacherous waters to the women who lost their loved ones to the waves to the creatures that dwell in their depths to beachcombers swimmers seabirds and mermaids Navigating through ancient Greek myths poetry shipwrecks and Scottish folktales Salt On Your Tongue is about how the wild untameable waves can help us understand what it means to be human