# Ness

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- Book: [Ness](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-macfarlane/ness) ([Ness.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-macfarlane/ness.md))
- Authors: [Robert Macfarlane](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-macfarlane), [Stanley Donwood](https://www.bookquiver.com/stanley-donwood)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4139-657-5
- Published: 2019-11-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

What happens when the land comes to life? Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a concrete-and-iron structure called The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a black mass. He plans to detonate a thermonuclear missile. But something is coming to stop him. Five more-than-human figures - or forms, or forces - are traversing the landscape, moving steadily towards a point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness is the land awakened. Ness is lichen skin and willow-bones, condensing mist and tidal drift. Ness has hagstones for eyes and Ness speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back.