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Chasing Fog

Finding Enchantment in a Cloud

by Laura Pashby

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Length 6 hours 53 minutes

Language English

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‘A delight for anyone whose heart thumps at the sight of dawn, dusk and hazy light’ Nell Frizzell

At first, I didn’t find fog – fog found me.

Liminal, transformative and increasingly elusive – far from a simple cloud of water droplets, fog is a state of mind. As mist drifted through a copse of trees, turning a familiar place strange and otherworldly, Laura Pashby snapped a photograph and an obsession began.

Pashby hunts for fog, walks and swims in it, explores its often pivotal role in literature, mythology and history, as well as its environmental significance. There has been a 50 per cent drop in 'fog events' in the past fifty years, fog is drifting away without us noticing and the ecological impact could be calamitous.

As she journeys to the foggiest places she can find, Pashby immerses herself in Dartmoor’s dangerous fog, searches for the Scottish haar, experiences Venice’s magical mist, tell us the myths behind the River Severn’s fog and the shipwrecks it hides.

It’s easy to get lost in fog, but sometimes it’s where imperceptible things can be found, including in ourselves. Chasing Fog is a captivating meditation on fog and mist, a love song to weather and nature’s power to transform.

Sports & Recreation Nonfiction Literary Criticism Environment & Nature

A lifelong bookworm and lover of stories, Laura Pashby graduated from the University of Bristol with an MA in Modern & Contemporary Poetry. Her obsession with photography began on her15th birthday when her dad gave me an Olympus Trip camera and made their downstairs cloakroom into a home darkroom. She's been taking pictures ever since. Her work has appeared in publications including The Simple Things, Ernest Journal, Project Calm, Country Homes & Interiors, Oh Magazine, Metro and Lionheart. She spent three years as the Deputy Editor of independent lifestyle magazine 91. You can find her on Instagram @circleofpines.