Metal magic and malice

Edited by Kate Green

Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Rocks Philip Marsden (Granta, £20) THIS glorious book opens with an account of the author’s crowning achievements as a child archaeologist. Aged only eight, Philip Marsden Jnr discovered a huge ammonite, a coil-shaped cephalopod that had once lived in the ancient ocean. His fossil, as thick as his arm and intricately patterned, set a boy’s imagination racing and left him with a lifelong fascination for the world that lies buried beneath our feet. This book is thus underpinned by decades of personal enquiry, but it unfolds as a physical and, in many ways, spiritual odyssey across central Europe, spanning the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and reaching its terminus in the gold-rich mountains of northern Georgia. At the core of the quest is his urge…

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Country Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 19, 2025

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