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Lark Rise to Candleford

Author : Flora Thompson
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567923631
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Lark Rise to Candleford written by Flora Thompson and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2009 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flora Thompson (1876 to 947) wrote what may be the quintessential distillation of English country life at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1945, the three books Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford (1941), and Candleford Green (1943) were published together in one elegant volume, and this new omnibus Nonpareil edition, complete with charming wood engravings, should be a cause for real rejoicing. The books have inspired two plays that ran in London, and the trilogy has been adapted into a multi-part, long-running television drama series by the BBC. The first series of ten episodes is scheduled to be syndicated on various PBS stations throughout the United States. A second series of twelve episodes, currently being broadcast in the United Kingdom, will follow in the United States shortly after.

The World of Flora Thompson

Author : Christine G. Bloxham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The World of Flora Thompson written by Christine G. Bloxham and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flora Thompson is the author of the well-known book of life in the Oxfordshire countryside, "Lark Rise to Candleford". Coinciding with the year of the sixtieth anniversary of Flora's death, this book includes material along with photographs.

Lark Rise

Author : Flora Thompson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727668223
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Lark Rise written by Flora Thompson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lark Rise By Flora Thompson The last words are true of the hamlet of Lark Rise. Because they were still an organic community, subsisting on the food, however scanty and monotonous, they raised themselves, they enjoyed good health and so, in spite of grinding poverty, no money to spend on amusements and hardly any for necessities, happiness. They still sang out-of-doors and kept May Day and Harvest Home. The songs were travesties of the traditional ones, but their blurred echoes and the remnants of the old salty country speech had not yet died and left the fields to their modern silence. The songs came from their own lips, not out of a box.

Still Glides the Stream

Author : Flora Jane Thompson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Still Glides the Stream written by Flora Jane Thompson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Still Glides the Stream" by Flora Jane Thompson. 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.

Over to Candleford

Author : Flora Jane Thompson
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Over to Candleford written by Flora Jane Thompson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This famous work tells the story of Laura, a young girl who has lived all her life in the little hamlet of Lark Rise. With the times changing and Laura growing up, she must go to the nearby village school, but she would far instead read and make up stories in her head. As the story moves forward, she has many great experiences when she and her precious younger brother Edmund are allowed to walk alone to the grand market town of Candleford to stay with their relatives one summer. It's a beautiful story of friendships, feuds, and a young girl finding her place in the world.

Heatherley

Author : Flora Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873855294
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Heatherley written by Flora Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dreams of the Good Life

Author : Richard Mabey
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0141044810
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Dreams of the Good Life written by Richard Mabey and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author herself. In this highly original book, bestselling biographer and nature writer Richard Mabey sympathetically retraces her life and her transformation from a post-office clerk who left school at fourteen to a sophisticated professional writer. Revealing how a formidable imagination can arise from the humblest of beginnings, Dreams of the Good Life paints a poignant, unforgettable portrait of a working-class woman writer's struggle for creative expression.

The World of Flora Thompson Revisited

Author : Christine G. Bloxham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The World of Flora Thompson Revisited written by Christine G. Bloxham and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Country Calendar

Author : Flora Thompson
Publisher : ISIS Large Print Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856951159
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book A Country Calendar written by Flora Thompson and published by ISIS Large Print Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of the monthly contributions Flora Thompson made to a small magazine, the "Catholic Fireside", between 1916 and 1928, when she lived in Liphook in Hampshire as the postmaster's wife. They show that her interest was captured by many things, including a kestrel hunting the January skies, the return of migrant birds in April, the remedial qualities of the elder tree, and the solitary life of the ploughman. Flora Thompson is perhaps best known as the author of the country classic, "Lark Rise to Candleford", and her remarkable observations about the countryside form a valuable part of the history of rural England.

Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants

Author : Ken Thompson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022667570X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants written by Ken Thompson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people, the story of Charles Darwin goes like this: he ventured to the Galapagos Islands on the Beagle, was inspired by the biodiversity of the birds he saw there, and immediately returned home to write his theory of evolution. But this simplified narrative is inaccurate and lacking: it leaves out a major part of Darwin’s legacy. He published On the Origin of Species nearly thirty years after his voyages. And much of his life was spent experimenting with and observing plants. Darwin was a brilliant and revolutionary botanist whose observations and theories were far ahead of his time. With Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants, biologist and gardening expert Ken Thompson restores this important aspect of Darwin’s biography while also delighting in the botanical world that captivated the famous scientist. Thompson traces how well Darwin’s discoveries have held up, revealing that many are remarkably long-lasting. Some findings are only now being confirmed and extended by high-tech modern research, while some have been corrected through recent analysis. We learn from Thompson how Darwin used plants to shape his most famous theory and then later how he used that theory to further push the boundaries of botanical knowledge. We also get to look over Darwin’s shoulder as he labors, learning more about his approach to research and his astonishing capacity for hard work. Darwin’s genius was to see the wonder and the significance in the ordinary and mundane, in the things that most people wouldn’t look at twice. Both Thompson and Darwin share a love for our most wonderful plants and the remarkable secrets they can unlock. This book will instill that same joy in casual gardeners and botany aficionados alike.

Flora Thompson

Author : Gillian Lindsay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873855539
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Flora Thompson written by Gillian Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Lark Rise To Candleford' and 'Heatherley' Flora Thompson wrote the story of her Victorian country childhood and her youth in village post offices. She was sixty when she wrote her well-known books but she had spent a lifetime serving her apprenticeship as a naturalist and a writer. This biography tells the story of her life and her struggles as a writer. Flora Thompson's books opened windows on to the lost world of the hamlet, the village and small country towns.

Love and Lament

Author : John Milliken Thompson
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590515889
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Love and Lament written by John Milliken Thompson and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dauntless heroine coming of age at the turn of the twentieth century confronts the hazards of patriarchy and prejudice, and discovers the unexpected opportunities of World War I Set in rural North Carolina between the Civil War and the Great War, Love and Lament chronicles the hardships and misfortunes of the Hartsoe family. Mary Bet, the youngest of nine children, was born the same year that the first railroad arrived in their county. As she matures, against the backdrop of Reconstruction and rapid industrialization, she must learn to deal with the deaths of her mother and siblings, a deaf and damaged older brother, and her father’s growing insanity and rejection of God. In the rich tradition of Southern gothic literature, John Milliken Thompson transports the reader back in time through brilliant characterizations and historical details, to explore what it means to be a woman charting her own destiny in a rapidly evolving world dominated by men.

Sea People

Author : Christina Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062060899
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Sea People written by Christina Thompson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind. For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world. Sea People includes an 8-page photo insert, illustrations throughout, and 2 endpaper maps.

The Race to Save the Lord God Bird

Author : Phillip Hoose
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374301964
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book The Race to Save the Lord God Bird written by Phillip Hoose and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in the race to save it. All this, plus Mr. Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds calls "the most thorough and readable account to date of the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics that combined to bring about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker." The Race to Save the Lord God Bird is the winner of the 2005 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2005 Bank Street - Flora Stieglitz Award.

The Face of the Earth

Author : SueEllen Campbell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950712
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Face of the Earth written by SueEllen Campbell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively book sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains—volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain forests—to explore how humans have made sense of our planet’s marvelous landscapes. In a rich weave of scientific, cultural, and personal stories, The Face of the Earth examines mirages and satellite images, swamp-dwelling heroes and Tibetan nomads, cave paintings and popular movies, investigating how we live with the great shaping forces of nature—from fire to changing climates and the intricacies of adaptation. The book illuminates subjects as diverse as the literary life of hollow Earth theories, the links between the Little Ice Age and Frankenstein’s monster, and the spiritual allure of deserts and their scarce waters. Including vivid, on-the-spot accounts by scientists and writers in Saudi Arabia, Australia, Alaska, England, the Rocky Mountains, Antarctica, and elsewhere, The Face of the Earth charts the depth and complexity of our interdependence with the natural world.

Nature's Design

Author : Richard Thompson
Publisher : Struik Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781770077249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Nature's Design written by Richard Thompson and published by Struik Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating text about the natural sciences that both answers questions, and raises new ones; with line drawings by the author

Lark

Author : Tracey Porter
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061122874
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Lark written by Tracey Porter and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When sixteen-year-old Lark Austin is kidnapped from her Virginia hometown and left to die in a snowy forest, she leaves behind two friends who are stunned by the loss. As Lark's former best friend, Eve can't shake the guilt that this tragedy was somehow her fault. Meanwhile, Nyetta is haunted each night by Lark's ghost, who comes through the bedroom window and begs Nyetta to set her soul free. Eve and Nyetta realize that Lark is trapped in limbo, and only by coming together to heal themselves will they discover why. Tracey Porter's stunning narrative about love and loss demonstrates that forgiveness can never come too late.