Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213457
Category : Gower Peninsula (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A musing by Iain Sinclair on the nature and landscapes of his childhood in South Wales, particularly the Gower Peninsula.
Black Apples of Gower
Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213457
Category : Gower Peninsula (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A musing by Iain Sinclair on the nature and landscapes of his childhood in South Wales, particularly the Gower Peninsula.
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213457
Category : Gower Peninsula (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A musing by Iain Sinclair on the nature and landscapes of his childhood in South Wales, particularly the Gower Peninsula.
Farmer's Glory
Author: A. G. Street
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Farmer's Glory" by A. G. Street. 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.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Farmer's Glory" by A. G. Street. 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.
Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
Author: Sinclair McKay
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250277507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity—in art, cinema, architecture, industry, science, and politics. He traces the city’s history through the rise of Hitler and the Battle for Berlin which ended in the final conquest of the city in 1945. It was a key moment in modern world history, but beyond the global repercussions lay thousands of individual stories of agony. From the countless women who endured nightmare ordeals at the hands of the Soviet soldiers to the teenage boys fitted with steel helmets too big for their heads and guns too big for their hands, McKay thrusts readers into the human cataclysm that tore down the modernity of the streets and reduced what was once the most sophisticated city on earth to ruins. Amid the destruction, a collective instinct was also at work—a determination to restore not just the rhythms of urban life, but also its fierce creativity. In Berlin today, there is a growing and urgent recognition that the testimonies of the ordinary citizens from 1919 forward should be given more prominence. That the housewives, office clerks, factory workers, and exuberant teenagers who witnessed these years of terrifying—and for some, initially exhilarating—transformation should be heard. Today, the exciting, youthful Berlin we see is patterned with echoes that lean back into that terrible vortex. In this new history of Berlin, Sinclair McKay erases the lines between the generations of Berliners, making their voices heard again to create a compelling, living portrait of life in this city that lay at the center of the world.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250277507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity—in art, cinema, architecture, industry, science, and politics. He traces the city’s history through the rise of Hitler and the Battle for Berlin which ended in the final conquest of the city in 1945. It was a key moment in modern world history, but beyond the global repercussions lay thousands of individual stories of agony. From the countless women who endured nightmare ordeals at the hands of the Soviet soldiers to the teenage boys fitted with steel helmets too big for their heads and guns too big for their hands, McKay thrusts readers into the human cataclysm that tore down the modernity of the streets and reduced what was once the most sophisticated city on earth to ruins. Amid the destruction, a collective instinct was also at work—a determination to restore not just the rhythms of urban life, but also its fierce creativity. In Berlin today, there is a growing and urgent recognition that the testimonies of the ordinary citizens from 1919 forward should be given more prominence. That the housewives, office clerks, factory workers, and exuberant teenagers who witnessed these years of terrifying—and for some, initially exhilarating—transformation should be heard. Today, the exciting, youthful Berlin we see is patterned with echoes that lean back into that terrible vortex. In this new history of Berlin, Sinclair McKay erases the lines between the generations of Berliners, making their voices heard again to create a compelling, living portrait of life in this city that lay at the center of the world.
Savage Gods
Author: Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
ISBN: 193751286X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
* Chicago Tribune "Fall literary preview: books you need to read now" * Vulture "The Best and Biggest Books to Read This Fall" * The Guardian "A best book of 2019" After moving with his wife and two children to a smallholding in Ireland, Paul Kingsnorth expects to find contentment. It is the goal he has sought — to nest, to find home — after years of rootlessness as an environmental activist and author. Instead he finds that his tools as a writer are failing him, calling into question his foundational beliefs about language and setting him at odds with culture itself. Informed by his experiences with indigenous peoples, the writings of D.H. Lawrence and Annie Dillard, and the day-to-day travails of farming his own land, Savage Gods asks: what does it mean to belong? What sacrifices must be made in order to truly inhabit a life? And can words ever paint the truth of the world — or are they part of the great lie which is killing it?
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
ISBN: 193751286X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
* Chicago Tribune "Fall literary preview: books you need to read now" * Vulture "The Best and Biggest Books to Read This Fall" * The Guardian "A best book of 2019" After moving with his wife and two children to a smallholding in Ireland, Paul Kingsnorth expects to find contentment. It is the goal he has sought — to nest, to find home — after years of rootlessness as an environmental activist and author. Instead he finds that his tools as a writer are failing him, calling into question his foundational beliefs about language and setting him at odds with culture itself. Informed by his experiences with indigenous peoples, the writings of D.H. Lawrence and Annie Dillard, and the day-to-day travails of farming his own land, Savage Gods asks: what does it mean to belong? What sacrifices must be made in order to truly inhabit a life? And can words ever paint the truth of the world — or are they part of the great lie which is killing it?
Limestone Country
Author: Fiona Sampson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908213518
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A book about farming, wildlife, culture and the personal experience of living in limestone country.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908213518
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A book about farming, wildlife, culture and the personal experience of living in limestone country.
Wild Life in a Southern County
Author: Richard Jefferies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Fresh Woods
Author: Ian Niall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908213082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ian Niall's sublime elegy to a forgotten world: life as a boy on a farm in Galloway in the 1920s.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908213082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ian Niall's sublime elegy to a forgotten world: life as a boy on a farm in Galloway in the 1920s.
The Book of the Damned
Author: Charles Fort
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613106424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you"--Taken from Good Reads website.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613106424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you"--Taken from Good Reads website.
Sweet Thames Run Softly
Author: Robert Gibbings
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213068
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A charming account of an artist-naturalist adrift in a home-made punt on the eve of the Second World War.
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213068
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A charming account of an artist-naturalist adrift in a home-made punt on the eve of the Second World War.
Ring of Bright Water
Author: Gavin Maxwell
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 9780582416888
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
This is the story of the author's life in Camusfearna, a wild and remote area of Scotland, and of three otters, Chahala, Mijbil and Edal, who became his constant companions.
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 9780582416888
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
This is the story of the author's life in Camusfearna, a wild and remote area of Scotland, and of three otters, Chahala, Mijbil and Edal, who became his constant companions.