This tutorial will guide you through each step, making it simple to capture the amazing details of this fascinating sea creature. The portraits that comprise so much of this book, along with Menmuir's personal experiences throughout, draw the reader into a world (or worlds) where nature, in this case the sea, is an integral part of each person's identity. The Draw of the Sea is immersive and inviting and filled with people who for all sorts of reasons go to the sea, and reading it will make you want to go with them. As unmissable as it is compelling, as profound as it is personal, this must-read book will delight anyone familiar with the intimate and powerful pull which the sea holds over us. Combing the beaches for things that have washed ashore, rock pooling and free diving just lend themselves to an idyllic and peaceful life.

He has written for Radio 4's Open Book, The Guardian and The Observer, and is a regular contributor to the journal Elementum. On a recent trip to Charmouth in Dorset, I watched people with picks and shovels, digging away at the cliffs in the hope of unearthing plesiosaur bones. ooOooWith credit to Holly Ovenden, the dust-jacket has a touch of gold colouring that follows through to the titling on the spine, all nonchalantly glistening in the change of light. In The Draw of the Sea, Wyl Menmuir investigates just that - the invisible force that pulls some of us to the coast, whether to simply gaze in awe at the vastness of the ocean or to fully immerse ourselves in its watery depths, to dive in, to swim, surf or sail. He meets some fabulously interesting people, artists, scientists and passionate hobbyists alike, all of whom offer a different viewpoint about what is so vital to them about the parts of the coastline that host their work or play.I really enjoyed this beautifully written book, which covers many aspects of living by and with the sea. It’s the connections that draw me to them: a mangled dragon’s wing to the child who played with that dragon twenty years earlier; a roll of birch bark to a tree that fell some 4,000 miles away. Wyl Menmuir is a Cornish based author whose 2016 debut novel, The Many, was longlisted for the Man-Booker Award.

The Draw of the Sea focuses its attention on the southwest peninsula and the coastlines of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. And there are few people I’ve met who don’t dream of finding the perfect white sands of a hidden beach on which to let go of the cares of the world. Across 13 chapters, this mix of memoir, travelogue and nature writing engages with the people and communities of coastal Cornwall and Menmuir’s adventures as he explores the draw of the sea.Welcome to Halfman, Halfbook for my stop on the Blog Tour for The Draw Of The Sea by Wyl Menmuir and published by Aurum. Most of the book is set around the Cornish coast, with occasional forays further afield to the Isles of Scilly and even Svalbard in Norway. Diving deep into a largely unknown territory as ancient as Deep Time itself, he emerges with stories of grief and mermaids, of ghost-plastic and hard-won wisdom, of harpoons and treasure and longing and precarity and the eternal quest for meaning: gifts that evoke both the richness and the strangeness of a precious world within a precious world.

Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Wyl Menmuir explores the different ways in which people can be drawn to the sea, content to leave it a mystery why they are drawn – and perhaps the mystery is the point.He talks to fishermen, beachcombers, surfers and other locals about living their lives by the tides, and explores his own personal emotional connection to the water. When Wyl Menmuir and his wife move to the Cornish coast to deal with their grief following a family tragedy, he discovers a diverse community of people united by their love for and connection with the sea. I miss and long for the sea when I am not near it and Wyl Menmuir has so beautifully captured that sentiment.