Eager Spring

A young academic is drawn towards activism when she is increasingly troubled by the growing threat of biocides. Through Virginia Brooke Barfield charts the mental and spiritual journey of a thinking person - and by extension of all thinking persons - faced with the need for action and the obligation to take it.From environmental thriller to Iron Age settlement domestic estrangement and the alienation of Man from Nature Barfield's last work of fiction will continue to delight admirers and provoke a fresh generation of thinkers. Owen Barfield is one of the twentieth century's most significant philosophers. He is widely known for his explorations of human consciousness the history of language the origins of poetic effect and cross-disciplinary thought. A member of the Inklings an Oxford group of scholars Barfield's thinking informed the writings of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien among others.Eager Spring is Barfield's 'eco-novella' written when the author was almost 90.