Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Under the Greenwood Tree
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Greenwood Trees
Author: Christina Hart-Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909747401
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Marking the 800th anniversary of the Forest Charter, award-winning botanical artist Christina Hart-Davies celebrates our long relationship with trees. Since pre-historic times they have provided us with shelter, fuel, medicine, food and even the air we breathe. They have tanned leather, dyed cloth and made everything from cathedrals to clothes-pegs. We have told stories about them, admired their magnificent beauty and woven them into our spiritual lives. Following A Wild Plant Year, which recorded the folklore and cultural history of our native wildflowers, in The Greenwood Trees Christina looks at the history, folklore and virtues of our native trees - and a few well-known introductions too - all illustrated with her exquisitely detailed watercolour paintings. We have relied on trees throughout our history. We still do, and we always will. Touch wood. - Which tree provides a talisman supposed to protect against lightning? - Which firewood burns best, even when green? - Which tree should you plant by the dairy and the privy to deter flies?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909747401
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Marking the 800th anniversary of the Forest Charter, award-winning botanical artist Christina Hart-Davies celebrates our long relationship with trees. Since pre-historic times they have provided us with shelter, fuel, medicine, food and even the air we breathe. They have tanned leather, dyed cloth and made everything from cathedrals to clothes-pegs. We have told stories about them, admired their magnificent beauty and woven them into our spiritual lives. Following A Wild Plant Year, which recorded the folklore and cultural history of our native wildflowers, in The Greenwood Trees Christina looks at the history, folklore and virtues of our native trees - and a few well-known introductions too - all illustrated with her exquisitely detailed watercolour paintings. We have relied on trees throughout our history. We still do, and we always will. Touch wood. - Which tree provides a talisman supposed to protect against lightning? - Which firewood burns best, even when green? - Which tree should you plant by the dairy and the privy to deter flies?
Under the greenwood tree
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Green-Wood
Author: Allison Cobb
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937658885
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A cultural biography of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, and a cry of mourning for a post-9/11 world of perpetual war and environmental violence
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937658885
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A cultural biography of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, and a cry of mourning for a post-9/11 world of perpetual war and environmental violence
Contemporary Botanical Artists
Author: Shirley Sherwood
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
ISBN: 9780297822707
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Presents a collection of botanical paintings along with descriptions of the artists' techniques and backgrounds.
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
ISBN: 9780297822707
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Presents a collection of botanical paintings along with descriptions of the artists' techniques and backgrounds.
Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery
Author: Jeffrey I. Richman
Publisher: Green Wood Cemetery
ISBN: 9780966343502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Published for the 160th anniversary of the cemetery, this book includes stories of some of the people buried there, "Civil War generals, murder victims, victims of mass tragedies, inventors, artists, the famous, and the infamous."--Page ix.
Publisher: Green Wood Cemetery
ISBN: 9780966343502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Published for the 160th anniversary of the cemetery, this book includes stories of some of the people buried there, "Civil War generals, murder victims, victims of mass tragedies, inventors, artists, the famous, and the infamous."--Page ix.
Greenwood
Author: Michael Christie
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771024460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
WINNER OF THE ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE A CBC BOOKS "BEST CANADIAN FICTION" TITLE OF THE YEAR NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. Cloud Atlas meets The Overstory in this ingenious nested-ring epic set against the devastation of the natural world. They come for the trees. It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich-eco-tourists in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall and facing the possibility of his own death. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is just out of jail for one of her environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and rapacious timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is a Depression-era drifter who saves an abandoned infant, only to find himself tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: a steady, silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie's effortless sentences, working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. Transporting, beautifully written, and brilliantly structured like the nested growth rings of a tree, Greenwood reveals the knot of lies, omissions, and half-truths that exists at the root of every family's origin story. It is a magnificent novel of greed, sacrifice, love, and the ties that bind--and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771024460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
WINNER OF THE ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE A CBC BOOKS "BEST CANADIAN FICTION" TITLE OF THE YEAR NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. Cloud Atlas meets The Overstory in this ingenious nested-ring epic set against the devastation of the natural world. They come for the trees. It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich-eco-tourists in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall and facing the possibility of his own death. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is just out of jail for one of her environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and rapacious timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is a Depression-era drifter who saves an abandoned infant, only to find himself tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: a steady, silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie's effortless sentences, working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. Transporting, beautifully written, and brilliantly structured like the nested growth rings of a tree, Greenwood reveals the knot of lies, omissions, and half-truths that exists at the root of every family's origin story. It is a magnificent novel of greed, sacrifice, love, and the ties that bind--and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.
Turning Green Wood
Author: Michael O'Donnell
Publisher: GMC Publications
ISBN: 9781784945589
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide to the art of turning delicate bowls and goblets from freshly felled, unseasoned wood
Publisher: GMC Publications
ISBN: 9781784945589
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide to the art of turning delicate bowls and goblets from freshly felled, unseasoned wood
The Forest Woodworker
Author: Sjors van der Meer
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782217363
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Immerse yourself in the ancient craft of of green woodworking by making the tools you need as well as nine useful objects. Take your woodworking out of the workshop and into the forest, and immerse yourself in the ancient craft of working with fresh, green wood. Sjors van der Meer and Job Suijker introduce you to the traditional skills of green woodworking. Learn about the qualities of wood; how to cut and shape it; how to craft your own tools such as a shaving horse, wooden club, chopping block and saw horse, and then how to use them to make spoons, spatulas, stools and chairs. As well as teaching you new skills, this inspiring book will show you how working in natural surroundings, with natural materials, can create an overwhelming sense of well-being and enhance your awareness of the environment.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782217363
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Immerse yourself in the ancient craft of of green woodworking by making the tools you need as well as nine useful objects. Take your woodworking out of the workshop and into the forest, and immerse yourself in the ancient craft of working with fresh, green wood. Sjors van der Meer and Job Suijker introduce you to the traditional skills of green woodworking. Learn about the qualities of wood; how to cut and shape it; how to craft your own tools such as a shaving horse, wooden club, chopping block and saw horse, and then how to use them to make spoons, spatulas, stools and chairs. As well as teaching you new skills, this inspiring book will show you how working in natural surroundings, with natural materials, can create an overwhelming sense of well-being and enhance your awareness of the environment.
Slöjd in Wood
Author: Jögge Sundqvist
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997870282
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997870282
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description