A respected travel writer, Marsden has spent much of his life in far flung corners of the globe from Russia to Ethiopia, but in his new book Rising Ground we find him making a series of journeys close to his new home in Cornwall. Billed as a journey in search of the spirit of place, Marsden seeks to unravel our complex relationship to the world around us. From the Neolithic ritual landscape of Bodmin Moor to the Arthurian traditions of Tintagel, he writes fluently about an area he feels deeply connected to. Rising Ground is a lyrical book in the vein of Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin, one that will have you itching to strap on your hiking boots and hit the road west. JM