Sea Marked: Throwing a Line to a Coastal Past

Sea Marked: Throwing a Line to a Coastal Past

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In this memoir of place, memory and motion, Linda Cracknell reels in the hidden lives of the women who went before her, crystallising her connection to them and to the sea.When Linda Cracknells quest to connect herself and her mother to a seafaring family history finds her in a harbour, bracing herself to throw a line, she is struck by the parallel of this physical action to her yearslong mission of reeling the past closer to the present, finding her place in a family tree full of mariners and shipowners, whose lives were defined by the ebb and flow of tides.She travels the Scottish and SouthWest England coast where many of her ancestors lived by boat and foot; travels on a 121yearold sailboat; joins a community effort to build and launch a rowing boat on a Highland loch; and lays a family palimpsest in the footsteps of her ancestors across marshes and clifftops. She finds that it is the women in her family who reach across the decades and centuries to catch the line she throws, and begins to understand them more clearly as the linchpins of the coastal communities they lived in, and as the undertow of her own identity. All the while, she is slowly untangling her complex relationship with her own elderly mother.What begins as a quest for legacy takes her well beyond, as she grows to understand something more elemental and unconscious in her pull to the sea, imagining her blood as saltsaturated, seamarked.

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