{"product_id":"9781916812505","title":"Sea Marked : Throwing a Line to a Coastal Past","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Linda Cracknell\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMaritime history\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 September 2025 by Saraband \/ Contraband in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 240 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 21mm | 202g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA memoir of place, memory and motion, of seafarers, and the author’s connections to them and to the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda Cracknell’s quest to learn more about her seafaring family history brings her to a blustery harbour. As she throws a line to pull in a boat, she is struck by the parallel with her mission to reel the past closer to the present, to find her place in a family tree full of mariners whose lives were defined by the ebb and flow of tides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring coastlines from Scotland to Cornwall by boat and foot, she retraces the footsteps and paths of her ancestors across marshes, clifftops and waves. She travels in a 121-year-old sailboat and helps to build a community rowing boat. Gradually, she understands that the women in this story were the linchpins of the coastal communities they lived in – and the undertow of her own identity. All the while, she is untangling her complex relationship with her mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a quest for legacy takes Linda well beyond, as she discovers something more elemental and unconscious in her pull to the sea, imagining her blood as salt-saturated, sea-marked.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Linda Cracknell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64838730842461,"sku":"9781916812505","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9781916812505.jpg?v=1780056554","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9781916812505","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}