Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213457
Category : Gower Peninsula (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A musing by Iain Sinclair on the nature and landscapes of his childhood in South Wales, particularly the Gower Peninsula.
Black Apples of Gower
Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213457
Category : Gower Peninsula (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A musing by Iain Sinclair on the nature and landscapes of his childhood in South Wales, particularly the Gower Peninsula.
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213457
Category : Gower Peninsula (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A musing by Iain Sinclair on the nature and landscapes of his childhood in South Wales, particularly the Gower Peninsula.
Farmer's Glory
Author: A. G. Street
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Farmer's Glory" by A. G. Street. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Farmer's Glory" by A. G. Street. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Unofficial Countryside
Author: Richard Mabey
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9780956254559
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
During the early 1970s Richard Mabey explored crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb-sites, navigated inner city canals and car parks, and discovered there was scarcely a nook in our urban landscape incapable of supporting life. The Unofficial Countryside is a timely reminder of how nature flourishes against the odds, surviving in the most obscure and surprising places. First published 1973 by William Collins Sons & Co.
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9780956254559
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
During the early 1970s Richard Mabey explored crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb-sites, navigated inner city canals and car parks, and discovered there was scarcely a nook in our urban landscape incapable of supporting life. The Unofficial Countryside is a timely reminder of how nature flourishes against the odds, surviving in the most obscure and surprising places. First published 1973 by William Collins Sons & Co.
Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
Author: Sinclair McKay
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250277507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity—in art, cinema, architecture, industry, science, and politics. He traces the city’s history through the rise of Hitler and the Battle for Berlin which ended in the final conquest of the city in 1945. It was a key moment in modern world history, but beyond the global repercussions lay thousands of individual stories of agony. From the countless women who endured nightmare ordeals at the hands of the Soviet soldiers to the teenage boys fitted with steel helmets too big for their heads and guns too big for their hands, McKay thrusts readers into the human cataclysm that tore down the modernity of the streets and reduced what was once the most sophisticated city on earth to ruins. Amid the destruction, a collective instinct was also at work—a determination to restore not just the rhythms of urban life, but also its fierce creativity. In Berlin today, there is a growing and urgent recognition that the testimonies of the ordinary citizens from 1919 forward should be given more prominence. That the housewives, office clerks, factory workers, and exuberant teenagers who witnessed these years of terrifying—and for some, initially exhilarating—transformation should be heard. Today, the exciting, youthful Berlin we see is patterned with echoes that lean back into that terrible vortex. In this new history of Berlin, Sinclair McKay erases the lines between the generations of Berliners, making their voices heard again to create a compelling, living portrait of life in this city that lay at the center of the world.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250277507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity—in art, cinema, architecture, industry, science, and politics. He traces the city’s history through the rise of Hitler and the Battle for Berlin which ended in the final conquest of the city in 1945. It was a key moment in modern world history, but beyond the global repercussions lay thousands of individual stories of agony. From the countless women who endured nightmare ordeals at the hands of the Soviet soldiers to the teenage boys fitted with steel helmets too big for their heads and guns too big for their hands, McKay thrusts readers into the human cataclysm that tore down the modernity of the streets and reduced what was once the most sophisticated city on earth to ruins. Amid the destruction, a collective instinct was also at work—a determination to restore not just the rhythms of urban life, but also its fierce creativity. In Berlin today, there is a growing and urgent recognition that the testimonies of the ordinary citizens from 1919 forward should be given more prominence. That the housewives, office clerks, factory workers, and exuberant teenagers who witnessed these years of terrifying—and for some, initially exhilarating—transformation should be heard. Today, the exciting, youthful Berlin we see is patterned with echoes that lean back into that terrible vortex. In this new history of Berlin, Sinclair McKay erases the lines between the generations of Berliners, making their voices heard again to create a compelling, living portrait of life in this city that lay at the center of the world.
Limestone Country
Author: Fiona Sampson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908213518
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A book about farming, wildlife, culture and the personal experience of living in limestone country.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908213518
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A book about farming, wildlife, culture and the personal experience of living in limestone country.
Copsford
Author: Walter J C Murray
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1920 a young man, Walter Murray, spent a year in a derelict cottage, Copsford, working in lonely countryside among the wild animals and birds, with only a dog, Floss, for companionship. From the beginning, Murray has to fight not only the rats that infest his inhospitable house, and the elements outside, but also a loneliness that he finds soul-shatteringly oppressive. But Murray comes to delight in his simple life, despite its deprivations. Above all, he appreciates the wildlife he experiences in meadow and woodland, the animals and insects, birds and butterflies. And he comes to a deeper understanding of plants and trees, the sun, wind, rain, frost and snow. Copsford is an under-appreciated classic of the English countryside, delighting not only in flora and fauna, but in scent, colour, sound and movement. In beautiful and sensitive prose Murray expresses a vivid depth of feeling for nature that makes Copsford a tour de force of nature mysticism. This new edition also contains Murray's essay, 'Voices of Trees', and an Introduction by R.B. Russell
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1920 a young man, Walter Murray, spent a year in a derelict cottage, Copsford, working in lonely countryside among the wild animals and birds, with only a dog, Floss, for companionship. From the beginning, Murray has to fight not only the rats that infest his inhospitable house, and the elements outside, but also a loneliness that he finds soul-shatteringly oppressive. But Murray comes to delight in his simple life, despite its deprivations. Above all, he appreciates the wildlife he experiences in meadow and woodland, the animals and insects, birds and butterflies. And he comes to a deeper understanding of plants and trees, the sun, wind, rain, frost and snow. Copsford is an under-appreciated classic of the English countryside, delighting not only in flora and fauna, but in scent, colour, sound and movement. In beautiful and sensitive prose Murray expresses a vivid depth of feeling for nature that makes Copsford a tour de force of nature mysticism. This new edition also contains Murray's essay, 'Voices of Trees', and an Introduction by R.B. Russell
Sweet Thames Run Softly
Author: Robert Gibbings
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213068
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A charming account of an artist-naturalist adrift in a home-made punt on the eve of the Second World War.
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213068
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A charming account of an artist-naturalist adrift in a home-made punt on the eve of the Second World War.
Living with Trees
Author: Robin Walter
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213730
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
New guide on how we can best live with and value our trees, from individual specimens to vast forests.
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213730
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
New guide on how we can best live with and value our trees, from individual specimens to vast forests.
1001 Things to Spot Long Ago
Author: Gillian Doherty
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780794527310
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Do you know how people lived a long time ago? This book is filled with things to spot from long ago. Clothing, vehicles, machinery and many other things from the past fill the pages of this book.
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780794527310
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Do you know how people lived a long time ago? This book is filled with things to spot from long ago. Clothing, vehicles, machinery and many other things from the past fill the pages of this book.
The Book of the Damned
Author: Charles Fort
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613106424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you"--Taken from Good Reads website.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613106424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you"--Taken from Good Reads website.