SHOW ME THE PLACE - Essays

<p>Apocalyptic futures surround us. In films books and in news feeds we are subjected to a barrage of end-time possibilities. Award-winning writer Hedley Twidle in quixotic mood sets out to snatch utopia from the jaws of dystopia.</p><p> </p><p>Whether embarking on a bizarre quest to find Cecil Rhodes's missing nose (sliced off the bust of the Rhodes Memorial) or cycling the Scottish islands with a couple of squabbling anarchists; whether learning to surf (much too late) in the wild freezing waters off the Cape Peninsula or navigating the fraught polities of a Buddhist retreat centre the author explores forgotten utopias intentional communities and islands of imagination with curiosity hope and humour.</p><p> </p><p>Ranging from the science fiction of Ursula Le Guin to the 'living laboratory' of Auroville in south India <em>Show Me the Place</em> investigates the deep human desire to imagine alternatives to what we take as normal or inevitable.</p>