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‘Nine Miles’
seeks to portray the fight against the Newbury
bypass and other road protests of the British Isles
in the mid nineteen nineties. It was a fight
characterised by extreme cold, fire and community,
cider, drugs and living simply in the woods. It was
a fight to preserve our natural inheritance, to make
the case for sustainable transport in the face of
powerful vested interests and in a wider sense, to
stand up for the earth herself at a time when our
lifestyles are often grossly out of balance with the
natural order of things. Ten years on, that fight
has lost none of its urgency.
“Told with candid humanity and a warm clarity
that captures the brilliance, the lunacy, the
nobility and the haphazardness of the campaigns.”
– Merrick Godhaven, author of Battle for the
Trees.
“Deeply moving… managed to catapult me straight
back into the midst of the passion, chaos and
turmoil.” – Rebecca Lush Blum, founder of
Roadblock.
“Beautifully written and wonderfully honest.”
– Professor Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and
Soul and Love and Revolution.
“Enormously historically important. A cultural
landmark.” – The Nail poetry magazine.
“Extraordinary.” – John Vidal, The
Guardian.
Now in it’s second edition, with 16 pages of colour
photographs.
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