Author: Tim Higham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988595542
Category : Naturalists
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
An off-grid house on Aotea Great Barrier Island promises to fulfil one man's dreams, until cracks start to appear. Part Man Alone, part love story, Island Notes explores questions of belonging, loss and impermanence and whether the life, seas and forests of a wild island can offer a reconciliation with our past. Award-winning science writer and advocate for the wilderness Tim Higham has written a memoir that draws inspiration from some of the great nature writers, while establishing his own distinctive and informed voice and a sense of place that could only be Aotearoa. From the publishers who brought you Ockham-longlisted Towards Compostela by Catharina van Bohemen.
Notes from a Small Island
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062417436
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie’s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062417436
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie’s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey.
Island Notes
Author: Tim Higham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988595542
Category : Naturalists
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
An off-grid house on Aotea Great Barrier Island promises to fulfil one man's dreams, until cracks start to appear. Part Man Alone, part love story, Island Notes explores questions of belonging, loss and impermanence and whether the life, seas and forests of a wild island can offer a reconciliation with our past. Award-winning science writer and advocate for the wilderness Tim Higham has written a memoir that draws inspiration from some of the great nature writers, while establishing his own distinctive and informed voice and a sense of place that could only be Aotearoa. From the publishers who brought you Ockham-longlisted Towards Compostela by Catharina van Bohemen.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988595542
Category : Naturalists
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
An off-grid house on Aotea Great Barrier Island promises to fulfil one man's dreams, until cracks start to appear. Part Man Alone, part love story, Island Notes explores questions of belonging, loss and impermanence and whether the life, seas and forests of a wild island can offer a reconciliation with our past. Award-winning science writer and advocate for the wilderness Tim Higham has written a memoir that draws inspiration from some of the great nature writers, while establishing his own distinctive and informed voice and a sense of place that could only be Aotearoa. From the publishers who brought you Ockham-longlisted Towards Compostela by Catharina van Bohemen.
Notes from an Island
Author: Tove Jansson
Publisher: Sort of Books
ISBN: 1908745959
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the solitude and shifting seascapes. Notes from an Island, published in English for the first time, is both a chronicle of this period and a homage to the mature love that Tove and 'Tooti' shared for their island and for each other. Tove's spare prose, and Tuulikki's subtle washes and aquatints combine to form a work of meditative beauty. '... Tooti wandered aimlessly around the island and stood stock still for long periods. I thought I knew what she was doing. She was working again. Copperplate etchings and wash drawings. Mostly the lagoon, the lagoon as a consummate mirror for clouds and birds, the lagoon in a storm, in fog. And the granite, first and foremost, the granite, the cliff, the rocks. It's all peace and quiet now.'
Publisher: Sort of Books
ISBN: 1908745959
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the solitude and shifting seascapes. Notes from an Island, published in English for the first time, is both a chronicle of this period and a homage to the mature love that Tove and 'Tooti' shared for their island and for each other. Tove's spare prose, and Tuulikki's subtle washes and aquatints combine to form a work of meditative beauty. '... Tooti wandered aimlessly around the island and stood stock still for long periods. I thought I knew what she was doing. She was working again. Copperplate etchings and wash drawings. Mostly the lagoon, the lagoon as a consummate mirror for clouds and birds, the lagoon in a storm, in fog. And the granite, first and foremost, the granite, the cliff, the rocks. It's all peace and quiet now.'
Sandwich Island Notes
Author: Haölé
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Final Notes From A Great Island
Author: Neil Humphreys
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814398969
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814398969
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Military Notes on the Philippines
Author: United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Background Notes
Author: United States. Department of State. Office of Media Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Scottish Notes and Queries
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Alaska Coast Pilot Notes from Yakutat Bay to Cook Inlet
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cook Inlet (Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cook Inlet (Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Geographic Notes
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description