Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
By: Anna Pavord
3.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Landskipping, Anna Pavord explores some of Britain's most iconic landscapes in the past, in the …
Want to Read $ 13.28"This is why you can with pleasure come back and back and back to a landscape; it is never the same. It is at the same time unchanging and ephemeral, timeless yet particular."-Anna Pavord, Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
"This is why you can with pleasure come back and back and back to a landscape; it is never the same. It is at the same time unchanging and ephemeral, timeless yet particular."-Anna Pavord, Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
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By: Patrick O'Brian
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in M… read more
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"Wittles is up' said Killick"-Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour (Aubrey & Maturin, #9)
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"That is not the Dryad. It has three masts.' 'There is no concealing anything from the Doctor,' said Jack, and turning directly to him he went on, 'Give you joy of our prize: we took her in the night.…"-Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour (Aubrey & Maturin, #9)
"Certainly he had heard of Homer, and had indeed looked into Mr Pope’s version of his tale; but for aught he could make out, the fellow was no seaman. Admittedly Ulysses had no chronometer, and probab…"-Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour (Aubrey & Maturin, #9)
2. The Provincial Lady in London
By: E.M. Delafield
3.96
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
These highly acclaimed, delightful novels are written in diary form by the Provincial Lady, who liv… read more
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3. The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
By: Agatha Christie
3.85
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great… read more
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"It's dangerous to know too much."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
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"Shades of Pelmanism!’ said Tommy, and relapsed into silence."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
"Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
4. Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
By: Simon Winder
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A unique exploration of German culture, from sausage advertisements to Wagner Sitting on a bench at… read more
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5. Sleepless Nights
By: Geoffrey O'Brien , Elizabeth Hardwick
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6. The China Governess (Albert Campion Mystery #17)
By: Margery Allingham
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Timothy Kinnit, rich, handsome, well-bred, learns on the eve of his elopement, that he was adopted.… read more
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7. Between the Woods and the Water
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris
4.12
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts The journey that Patrick Le… read more
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8. Phineas Redux (Palliser, #4)
By: Anthony Trollope
3.99
Format: None pages,
After the death of his Irish wife, Phineas Finn returns to London and to the House of Commons. But … read more
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9. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New
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Format: 256 pages,
Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more
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10. The Wild Places
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.73
Format: None pages,
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11. The Pursuit of Love
By: Nancy Mitford
3.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
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12. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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13. Landmarks
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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14. A Time of Gifts
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
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15. The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1)
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Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the… read more
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16. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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4.12
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An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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17. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
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"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
18. Holloway
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3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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19. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
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21. The Salt Path
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4.02
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"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
22. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
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4.37
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"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
24. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
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4.30
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"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
25. Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
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29. The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, Stories and 100 Essential Recipes for Midwinter
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30. The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an English Forest
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31. Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
By: Anna Pavord
3.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Landskipping, Anna Pavord explores some of Britain's most iconic landscapes in the past, in the … read more
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- environment
"This is why you can with pleasure come back and back and back to a landscape; it is never the same. It is at the same time unchanging and ephemeral, timeless yet particular."-Anna Pavord, Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
