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The Place of Tides
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And then the third one would be more u maybe more of a an antidote. It's a beautiful book called The Place of Tides by uh James Reebanks and he just goes non-fiction and he goes to uh an island um I think it's off Iceland and he lives with this woman...
The best things said about it
I read uh for now James re exactly James Reebank's new book uh who shares an agent with uh with you and I a bird is his agent called the place of tides. He is uh I think the best naturalist writing today. I I it's it's one of the best non-fiction books I've read since Zetune.
Why people recommend it
James Rebanks's non-fiction work transports readers to a remote island setting to examine a quiet way of living away from modern distractions. On The Ezra Klein Show, George Saunders recommended the book as a meditative and peaceful antidote to the frantic pace of contemporary life, describing how the author travels to an island to live alongside a local resident. Later, during a media diet segment on The Rich Roll Podcast, Adam Skolnick brought up the same work, praising the author as one of the finest naturalist writers currently working today. Skolnick noted that the non-fiction release stood out to him as one of the most compelling and extraordinary books he had encountered in recent years. Both commentators highlighted the transportive quality of the writing and its ability to offer readers a deeply contemplative retreat into the natural world.
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Adam Skolnick I read uh for now James re exactly James Reebank's new book uh who shares an agent with uh with you and I a… 1
“I read uh for now James re exactly James Reebank's new book uh who shares an agent with uh with you and I a bird is his agent called the place of tides. He is uh I think the best naturalist writing today. I I it's it's one of the best non-fiction books I've read since Zetune.”
George Saunders And then the third one would be more u maybe more of a an antidote. It's a beautiful book called The Place… 1
“And then the third one would be more u maybe more of a an antidote. It's a beautiful book called The Place of Tides by uh James Reebanks and he just goes non-fiction and he goes to uh an island um I think it's off Iceland and he lives with this woman...”
