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Book Synopsis Tarka the Otter by : Henry Williamson
Download or read book Tarka the Otter written by Henry Williamson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic story of an otter living in the Devonshire countryside which captures the feel of life in the wild as seen through the otter's own eyes.
Book Synopsis The Dark Lantern by : Henry Williamson
Download or read book The Dark Lantern written by Henry Williamson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Lantern (1951) was the first of Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlightspanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. In it we meet Richard Maddison, a countryman working in London as a City clerk, struggling to make do on a few shillings a week. He falls for Hetty Turner, youngest daughter of a prosperous merchant, but her father rates Richard an unsuitable suitor. 'There is magic in Henry Williamson's novel . . . which raises it right out of the family saga class. The magic is of the steam train age of South London which is so lovingly described.' John Betjeman , Daily Telegraph 'Williamson's style is romantic, though rarely sentimental, and his sensuous response to nature is fresh and surprising.' Anthony Burgess, Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939
Book Synopsis Dandelion Days by : Henry Williamson
Download or read book Dandelion Days written by Henry Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henry Williamson and the First World War by : Anne Williamson
Download or read book Henry Williamson and the First World War written by Anne Williamson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2004-02-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Williamson is known for his book 'Tarka the Otter', yet his time in World War I trenches affected him profoundly. This book draws on his letters, diaries, photographs and notebooks written at the time to give us a detailed account of life in the trenches of the First World War. It also offers us a rare insight into the making of a novelist.
Book Synopsis Salar the Salmon by : Henry Williamson
Download or read book Salar the Salmon written by Henry Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salar is a five-year-old salmon returning to the stream of his birth. He faces great dangers - cruising lampreys, poachers with their cruel nets and spears, sharp-eyed otters, cascading falls - all between Salar and his goal in the spawning sands.
Book Synopsis BEAUTIFUL YEARS by : HENRY. WILLIAMSON
Download or read book BEAUTIFUL YEARS written by HENRY. WILLIAMSON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winged Victory written by V.M. Yeates and published by Grub Street Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-19 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the chilling combat of World War I from inside an early biplane in this classic novel, by a pilot who lived through the war himself. France, 1914. The war on the land is taking to the skies . . . Pilot Tom Cundall is ready to take on the enemy in his trusty Camel fighter plane. But as he sees more and more planes shot down in flames, he begins to question the war, and what, or who, he is fighting for. There is no bitter snarl nor self-pity in this classic novel about the air war of 1914-1918, based very largely on the author’s experiences. Combat, loneliness, fatigue, fear, comradeship, women, excitement—they all are part of a brilliantly told story of war and courage by one of the most valiant pilots of the then Royal Flying Corps. Praise for Winged Victory “The greatest novel of war in the air.” —The Daily Mail (UK) ‘Beautifully written with a poet’s eye as well as a pilot’s eye.” —Evening Echo (UK) “Not only one of the best war books . . . but as a transcription of reality, faithful and sustained in its author’s purpose of re-creating the past life he knew, it is unique.” —Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter
Book Synopsis A Clear Water Stream by : Henry Williamson
Download or read book A Clear Water Stream written by Henry Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether the reader is an angler, naturalist, country lover or simply receptive to Williamson's limpid prose, A Clear Water Stream embraces all these passions.The Williamson family moved to Shallowford on the River Bray in North Devon, England, in 1929. With his typical zest, the author set about revitalizing the river, stocking it with both salmon and trout, and building low weirs, thus creating new pools and improving the flow of water.Mistakes were made, with sleepless nights spent worrying over poachers, predators, and upsetting the natural balance. Williamson's error was to apply a chalkstream ethic to the Bray, and upland, acidic water. His introduction of water-crowfoot, a relatively uncommon plant in West Country upland streams at that time, was the cause of much consternation among local fishermen.There are stories of entertaining sojourns spent fishing in the Hebrides, Florida and Canada, and joyous moments with his children, but throughout, the thread - which is the stream - enchants the reader to the finale.Henry Williamson's impassioned observations were later to become the genesis for his classic work, Salar the Salmon.A Clear Water Stream is a delightful tale, interspersed with the author's deepest emotions. Henry Williamson's message, nearly eighty years later, stands as a prophetic work of genius. The River Bray today runs clear and vibrant. Salmon and sea trout still ascent to the foot of Exmoor, and the diminutive but beautiful wild trout continue to dimple the river's surface.
Book Synopsis Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture by : Elizabeth R. Williamson
Download or read book Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture written by Elizabeth R. Williamson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of Elizabethan diplomacy with an original archival foundation, this book examines the world of letters underlying diplomacy and political administration by exploring a material text never before studied in its own right: the diplomatic letter-book. Author Elizabeth R. Williamson argues that a new focus on the central activity of information gathering allows us to situate diplomacy in its natural context as one of several intertwined areas of crown service, and as one of the several sites of production of political information under Elizabeth I. Close attention to the material features of these letter-books elucidates the environment in which they were produced, copied, and kept, and exposes the shared skills and practices of diplomatic activity, domestic governance, and early modern archiving. This archaeological exploration of epistolary and archival culture establishes a métier of state actor that participates in – even defines – a notably early modern growth in administration and information management. Extending this discussion to our own conditions of access, a new parallel is drawn across two ages of information obsession as Williamson argues that the digital has a natural place in this textual history that we can no longer ignore. This study makes significant contributions to epistolary culture, diplomatic history, and early modern studies more widely, by showing that understanding Elizabethan diplomacy takes us far beyond any single ambassador or agent defined as such: it is a way into an entire administrative landscape and political culture.
Book Synopsis The Life Story of an Otter by : John Coulson Tregarthen
Download or read book The Life Story of an Otter written by John Coulson Tregarthen and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gale of the World by : Henry Williamson
Download or read book The Gale of the World written by Henry Williamson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume, volume fifteen, of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Phillip Maddison is living apart from his wife, Lucy, in the year immediately following the Second World War. He has sold his farm and handed over the proceeds in trust for the family excluding himself. Now living alone on Exmoor he is as ever haunted by the past, and his pro-German views bring him under constant fear of attack. A love affair, the death of his father, and tender relationship with his cousin's two daughters are particularly outstanding in a novel full of incident; and this final novel in A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight completes the history of Phillip Maddison while at the same time rounding off an unsurpassed picture of fifty swiftly-changing years.
Book Synopsis The Power of the Dead by : Henry Williamson
Download or read book The Power of the Dead written by Henry Williamson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume eleven of Th e Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Twelve hundred acres of downland valley with a trout stream await an heir and Sir Hilary Maddison wants his only nephew Phillip to learn farming the hard way, beginning as a labourer and rising to a tenancy-for-life. But Phillip has other ideas. Unable to forget the early death of his wife Barley as well as his friends who died in the Great War, he needs to recreate his past in his writing. Trying to combine both worlds Phillip is bound to fail in one of them; and literary success only intensifies the dilemma. 'The finest yet in Mr Williamson's long series' Kenneth Allsop
Book Synopsis Life in a Devon Village by : Henry Williamson
Download or read book Life in a Devon Village written by Henry Williamson and published by Constable. This book was released on 1983 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henry, an Appreciation of Henry Williamson by : Daniel Farson
Download or read book Henry, an Appreciation of Henry Williamson written by Daniel Farson and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1982 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Williamson, author of the classic Tarka the Otter, received very little public recognition. In the 1930s he was a supporter of Oswald Mosley and an admirer of Hitler; he was never forgiven. In this personal memoir, author and journalist Daniel Farson, who knew Williamson from childhood, looks at the man and the myth.
Book Synopsis Henry Williamson Papers by : Henry Williamson
Download or read book Henry Williamson Papers written by Henry Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handwritten and typescripts of writings, reports, correspondence, postcards, notes, and miscellaneous documents. These materials shed light on many of Williamson's publications, his ideas, personality, temperament, and relationships.
Book Synopsis Lucifer Before Sunrise by : Henry Williamson
Download or read book Lucifer Before Sunrise written by Henry Williamson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume fourteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Beginning in the winter of 1940/1 and ending with the uneasy 'sunrise' of peace in 1945, this volume sees Phillip Maddison striving idealistically to hold a balance while lamenting the division and possible total ruin of Europe, as he copes with the day-to-day problems of running the East Anglian farm he has wrested from virtual wilderness. The pattern of everyday living in those years is lovingly evoked: the bomber-haunted nights, the petty profiteering and gossip of country life - all essential, but often unrecorded, elements of the wartime scene. 'The sequence will stand, at the end, as a massive emotional record.' Guardian
Book Synopsis Love and the Loveless by : Henry Williamson
Download or read book Love and the Loveless written by Henry Williamson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and the Loveless (1958) was the seventh entry in Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. The year covered by this novel, 1917, was perhaps the darkest of the Great War, with widespread mutinies in the French Army after the disastrous Nivelle offensive. Phillip Maddison is now a young transport officer, tending pack animals, surviving amid devastation and death. His courage, sustained by poetry, by comradeship, by the comfort of whisky and water, is perhaps unnatural; but amid the charnel house of battle he endures, in a way of life so alien to those at home that it might be the dark side of the moon. 'Williamson's style is romantic, though rarely sentimental, and his sensuous response to nature is fresh and surprising.' Anthony Burgess, Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939
