« Style is the man himself, and one never tires of Sylvain Tesson’s. » – Famille Chrétienne
“Stack refers in English to the pillars of the sea, detached from the coastline. Around the world, these rock sentinels rise by the thousands in front of coastal cliffs. I want to swing in the waves, climb these spires amid the birds. Standing apart, they resemble dandies, human rebels.
Who are you, towers of the high sea? Perhaps the last refuge?
Everything shifts around us—yet you do not retreat.”
– Sylvain Tesson
From the Aiguille d’Étretat to the Totem Pole in Tasmania, from the Scottish stacks to Cape Horn, this is both a physical and philosophical journey confronting one of the most perilous questions of all: rebellion.
