Limestone Country

Limestone produces some of the most distinctive, and long-inhabited, landscapes in the world; astonishingly varied, it can also be exceptionally beautiful. Limestone Country is an account of a love affair with this sedimentary rock, exploring how different communities around the world are bound together by their shared geology. Poet, Fiona Sampson, paints a lyrical and very personal portrait of four particular limestone landscapes: a farming hamlet in Perigord, sourthern France, the Karst region of Slovenia, a rural parish in England, and Jerusalem, a limestone city that has long shaped people's beliefs, ways of life and imagination. These stories, vital and human, are told through farming routines, snapshots of daily lie and through encounters in streets and fields with wildlife and human history. This is a meditation on how people live in a landscape, how they alter it, and how the landscape, in turn, shapes them.