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In her Introduction to the 1978 edition of
her book 'A Land', Jacquetta Hawkes discarded false
modesty.
A Land, she hopes, can 'be accepted as one of the
heralds of that spirit of universal inter- relatedness
that now inspires ecological thinking and action.' She
had written it in the early 1950s to express her own
intense awareness of continuity in both time and space.
In some ways this originality had been a handicap: 'it
was not a work of science, of scholarship, of opinion
or of fiction, but a curious blend of them all.' Beyond
dispute it had been an unexpected best- seller and many
readers found that 'their vision of the world had been
changed, made happier' by the book.
In many ways A Land is as timeless as the subject with which it
deals. It continues to widen people's horizons, and
anyone who takes stock of his or her place in the universe,
should not be without it. It has been described as a
sermon to herald a change in cultural orientation, a
meditation on what is is to be human in a physico chemical
process running on stardust.
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