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Clare Leighton's Rural Life

Author : Clare Leighton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851246120
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Clare Leighton's Rural Life written by Clare Leighton and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writings and artwork by noted wood engraver Clare Leighton. Clare Leighton was one of the most prolific and highly regarded wood engravers of her time, leaving behind a body of work that reflected her rural life in Britain and North America. During the 1930s, as the world around her became increasingly technological, industrial, and urban, Leighton portrayed rural men and women and the ancient methods they used to work the land that would soon vanish forever. Her two best-loved publications, The Farmer's Year and Four Hedges, reflect this passion for the British countryside. Less well known are her books illustrating and describing rural life in the United States of America, where she emigrated and became a naturalized citizen in 1945, including Southern Harvest and Where Land Meets Sea: The Tide Line of Cape Cod. Leighton also spent time in Canada with the logging community, winning the respect of Canadian lumberjacks by adopting their way of life. Her wood engravings depicting lumberjacks in the snow-covered forests of Canada are some of her most evocative prints. This lavish anthology includes beautifully reproduced extracts and a detailed introduction to the artist's life and work, reflecting Leighton's lifelong fascination with the virtues of the countryside and the people who worked the land.

Southern Harvest

Author : Clare Leighton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780820319483
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Southern Harvest written by Clare Leighton and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking cotton, shucking corn, boiling sorghum, and harvesting tobacco are all part of the rich agricultural heritage of the South recalled in this text. Leighton attempts to convey her sense of wonder at the connection between humankind and nature which she discovered in the rural South.

The Rural Life of England

Author : William Howitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rural Life of England written by William Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Casting into Mystery

Author : Robert Reid
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 0889848688
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Casting into Mystery written by Robert Reid and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Every time I leave the world of work, family and community to wade into a river with fly rod in hand, I enter a sacred space that sometimes finds expression in the written word.’ In Casting into Mystery, writer Robert Reid and wood engraver Wesley W. Bates—avid anglers, both—put ink to paper in homage to the venerable sport of fly fishing. Through text and image, they recall with fondness the ‘company of rivers’ each is grateful to know, providing a glimpse inside a sporting culture teeming with literature, art and music. Part memoir, part objet d’art and part field guide, Casting into Mystery will delight passionate fly fishing practitioners and armchair anglers alike.

The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton

Author : Mrs. Russell Barrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton written by Mrs. Russell Barrington and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jambusters

Author : Julie Summers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 085720047X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Jambusters written by Julie Summers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling true story that inspired the hugely successful major ITV drama series HOME FIRES – now in its second season. The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. The whole of its previous history - two decades of educating, entertaining and supporting women and campaigning on women's issues - culminated in the enormous collective responsibility felt by the members to 'do their bit' for Britain. With all the vigour, energy and enthusiasm at their disposal, a third of a million country women set out to make their lives and the lives of those around them more bearable in what they described as 'a period of insanity'. Through archive material and interviews with many WI members, Julie Summers takes us behind the scenes, revealing their nitty-gritty approach to the daily problems presented by the conflict. Jambusters is the fascinating story of how the Women's Institute pulled rural Britain through the war with pots of jam and a spirit of make-do-and-mend.

Copsford

Author : Walter J C Murray
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Copsford written by Walter J C Murray and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Country Matters

Author : Clare Leighton
Publisher : Little Toller Books
ISBN 13 : 9781908213389
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Country Matters written by Clare Leighton and published by Little Toller Books. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Clare Leighton moved to the countryside in the 1930s, she tuned her exceptional creativity to the Chiltern landscape around her. Already considered one of the finest engravers of her time, she immediately began a series of portraits, in words and engravings, which explored the nature and rhythms of rural life. With subjects as varied as picking primroses, the village witch and smithy, harvest festival, chair bodgers, the local pub, felling trees and country cramps, Leighton documents the idiosyncrasies and nuances of rural culture, leaving us with a valuable and beautiful record of a way of life that has now vanished. Illustrated with her own bold and elegant engravings, here is an affectionate, unsentimental portrait of the English countryside. Book jacket.

The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141958677
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1998-10-19 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such asArnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, and makes room for several poem-sequences in their entirety. It is wonderful, too, in its discovery and inclusion of eccentric, dissenting, un-Victorian voices, poets who squarely refuse to 'represent' their period. It also includes the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith, James Thomson and Augusta Webster.

Country Matters

Author : Michael Korda
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006187468X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Country Matters written by Michael Korda and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dreaming of moving to the country? First, read Michael Korda’s engaging memoir. City types will find laughter, profit, and fair warning in Country Matters.” —Washington Post With his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of a city couple's new life in the country. At once entertaining, canny, and moving, Country Matters does for Dutchess County, New York, what Under the Tuscan Sun did for Tuscany. This witty memoir, replete with Korda's own line drawings, reads like a novel, as it chronicles the author's transformation from city slicker to full-time country gentleman, complete with tractors, horses, and a leaking roof. When he decides to take up residence in an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Dutchess County, ninety miles north of New York City, Korda discovers what country life is really like: Owning pigs, more than owning horses, even more than owning the actual house, firmly anchored the Kordas as residents in the eyes of their Pleasant Valley neighbors. You may own your land, but without concertina barbed wire, or the 82nd Airborne on patrol, it's impossible to keep people off it! It's possible to line up major household repairs over a tuna melt sandwich. The locals are not particularly quick to accept these outsiders, and the couple's earliest interactions with their new neighbors provide constant entertainment, particularly when the Kordas discover that hunting season is a year-round event—right on their own land! From their closest neighbors, mostly dairy farmers, to their unforgettable caretaker Harold Roe—whose motto regarding the local flora is "Whack it all back! "—the residents of Pleasant Valley eventually come to realize that the Kordas are more than mere weekenders. Sure to have readers in stitches, this is a book that has universal appeal for all who have ever dreamed of owning that perfect little place to escape to up in the country, or, more boldly, have done it.

The Geography of Bliss

Author : Eric Weiner
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 0446511072
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Bliss written by Eric Weiner and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2008-01-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

Devil's Day

Author : Andrew Michael Hurley
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328489884
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Devil's Day written by Andrew Michael Hurley and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2018 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping and unsettling new novel by the award-winning author of The Loney that asks how much we owe to tradition, and how far we will go to preserve it"--

The Country of Ice Cream Star

Author : Sandra Newman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062227122
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Country of Ice Cream Star written by Sandra Newman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive dystopian thriller, told in bold and fierce language, from a remarkable literary talent. My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be the tale of how I bring the cure to all the Nighted States . . . In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off of the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a mysterious disease they call Posies—a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumor of a cure. When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous, unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty, terror, and betrayal, fighting with her whole heart and soul to protect the only world she has ever known. Guardian First Book Award finalist Sandra Newman delivers an extraordinary post-apocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas. Like Hushpuppy in The Beasts of the Southern Wild grown to adolescence in a landscape as dangerously unpredictable as that of Ready Player One, The Country of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent.

Agnes Miller Parker

Author : Agnes Miller Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780948714634
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Agnes Miller Parker written by Agnes Miller Parker and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clare Leighton

Author : Anne Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clare Leighton written by Anne Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clare Leighton (1898--1989) is best known as one of this country's leading wood engravers. She also wrote and illustrated several books, working in both England and the United States where she settled in Connecticut in 1939.

Bicycles

Author : Tom Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851243686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Bicycles written by Tom Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, 'ordinary' people could afford to own their portraits.Bicycles documents the great age of the safety bicycle which was the instrument of emancipation for women and freedom for men. Also we see competitive racers and pedalling toddlers.Each book contains 200 images chosen with the eye of a leading artist from a visually rich vein of social history. Their covers will also feature a thematically linked painting, especially created for each title, from Tom Phillips' signature work, A Humument.

Charles Tunnicliffe

Author : Robert Meyrick
Publisher : Royal Academy Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781910350645
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Charles Tunnicliffe written by Robert Meyrick and published by Royal Academy Editions. This book was released on 2017 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Second nature: the art of Charles Tunnicliffe RA," held at the Tennant Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 11 July - 8 October 2017.