The other side of Essex

Away from the tame landscape of suburban Essex, with its car parks and roads, writer Robert Macfarlane rediscovers the rich, elemental and little appreciated wildernesses of this English county.

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The other side to Essex

The Other Side of Essex - Unexpected Wilderness 

Essex gets a terrible ____

It is dismissed as the home _____ entertainment and ____ industry

The Upper Thames is Essex's _______

The area used to be ______

It's a ______ place

Falcon and power station represent the ______ and the ______ up against one another.

Spay-can ______ lichens

The razor wire _______ with briar and bramble

The landscape requires _______

The power of darkness - Unexpected Wilderness - BBC

1. By moonlight we become more ________________

2. _______, _____ and _______ swarm out of the darkness

3. It has become harder to find __________

4. Cities stain their skies __________

5. We are close to _________ the stars and banishing _______

6. we have a superflux of __________ lighting that interferes with _____________

7. Seeing the stars is a ____________

8. We've nearly forgotten _______________

9. The Dengie Peninsula is the _________________

10. Like snowfall or mist ______ confers a ________ on a place.

11. On the foreshore you can hear  the piping of _______ Catchers and the the crackle of _________

12. The ____ is on the wane

13. The sky feels like a _____

14. You feel like you'll fall ________

15. Human culture has always directed dreams of _______ up at the stars.

Wild Seals in the Thames - Unexpected Wildernes

1. A head rises like _________

2. The seals watch with intransitive ________

3. The males spar for ___ of the foreshore

4. Seals ______ in folklore because  of their uncanny _____ nature

5. They are half human and half ________

6. The seals haul out on the ____ that is rich in _______

7. Wild creatures ______ the colour of iron and ___________

Owl in Flight - Unexpected Wilderness

1. We think of Barn Owls as h_________ of the dark

2. To see them ______ is startling

3. They are like _________ in daylight.

4. They fly with a _________ vigilance

5. They set the land alight with _________

6. Pass through the air in s__________

7. A ______r landscape feels ___ in snow

8. The un________ snow made wild of the ______