Farm. The Story of One Family and the English Countryside, Paperback - Richard Benson

While growing up, the author felt like 'the village idiot with O'levels'. He left Yorkshire to work as a journalist in London, but returned when hi...

Reducere. An English village cozy that's perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton and Simon Brett... Location scout and Jane Austen fan, Kate Sharp, is thrilled when ...

A wedding day turns into a far darker affair in the idyllic Lake District.Publisher: Allison & BusbyAuthor(s): Rebecca (Author) TopeNumber of pages...

Reducere. In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of Population: 485 gives us a humorous, heartfelt...

Split between war-torn Cyprus and North London in the 1970s and 1980s this is a story of the choices women have to make to survive, and a portrait ...

Reducere. Next to the Bible itself, the English Bible was -- and is -- the most influential book ever published. The most famous of all English Bibles, the K...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the story of Galicia, once a crown land of the Austrian Empire, located in the center of Europe. Although largely forgotten toda...

When the author and her partner Colin, both young academics, moved in with her uncle Charles, an elderly bachelor, they had no idea what the coming...

DescriptionAdrian Bell was farming and writing during a period when the English countryside underwent its most significant transformation for hundr...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Frankie MoffattIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 68Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 201 x 1...

A global future in the history of a single village After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and lite...

The life and times of Hipparchia, one of the first female philosophersPublisher: SelfMadeHeroAuthor(s): Barbara StokIllustration(s): 4col illustrat...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionIn Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tel...

`Moving - at times almost unbearably so - and fascinating' Antonia Fraser A family's story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the ...

Reducere. Give one kind word, one loving phrase, and know you just made someone else's day.How can you do just one thing to change the world today? Be it a c...

Reducere. Give one kind word, one loving phrase, and know you just made someone else's day.How can you do just one thing to change the world today? Be it a c...

Reducere. We love The American Farmer. We trust them to grow our food, to be part of children's nursery rhymes, to provide the economic backbone of rural com...

Publisher: ApertureIllustration(s): 100 four-color and black-and-white imagesNumber of pages: 178Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 172 x 249 x 29Co...

Reducere. In the early 1800s John Bell moved his family from North Carolina to the rich bottom lands along the Red River in Robertson County, Tennessee. Bell...

Reducere. Little Ewe would rather jump on logs and investigate spider webs than follow the shepherd when he calls. But what happens when she gets lost? How w...

Taking the reader through the remote wilds of the jungle, showing the parching heat and the relentless rain that these men experienced, Rhodes Jame...

A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable womenPublisher: Yale Univers...

Reducere. ``A truly inspiring story, in gorgeous prose, about one family's journey into blueberry farming. Delicious reading.`` --Naomi Wolf, author of The E...

A year on an Irish farm, and an intimate look at man's relationship with the cow, from domestication and worship in Ancient Egypt to the consequenc...

Reducere. Former Dean of the Yale School of Art, Richard Benson has been a photographer for more than four decades, but until now his art often took a back s...

DescriptionAn intimate celebration of British country life with all the hallmarks of how design and dogs are as intertwined as roses and Wellington...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Matt BakerNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Another year, another set of exams and another round of well-meaning students to provide us with our textbook mix of wisdom and wisecracks. Burstin...

Called by Plutarch 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors, ' Antigonos the One-Eyed (382-301 BC) was the dominant figure during the fir...

DescriptionLarge Print EditionEven quaint and cozy English villages have a dark side . . . Location scout and Jane Austen aficionado, Kate Sharp, i...

The water vole is one of Britain's most endangered mammals. Popularised as 'Ratty' in The Wind in the Willows, it is a cherished resident of our wa...

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, Amity and Prosperity is a powerful and beautifully-written story of the energy boom's impact on a small town in ...

The absolutely gripping and heartbreaking story of one woman's journey to save her familyPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Kay Brellend...

Author and long-distance runner Jen Benson decided to live in a tent for a year with her husband Sim and their children to escape the stress, press...

From FSGO x Logic: stories about rural China, food, and tech that reveal new truths about the globalised world.Illustrations: Notes

Broadcaster Paul Heiney reveals the remarkable story of his relationship with his pig, Alice, and how we can all learn from her

DescriptionFrom rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging ...

A powerfully moving family memoir of loss, exile and self-concealment in Nazi Germany.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Simon MayIllustration(s): ...

We Americans love our food. It's part of what has made this nation great. Our fertile farmlands and the abundance and variety of our agricultural o...

During the early 1970s Richard Mabey explored the edgelands of cities: crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb-sites, inner city canals and car par...

A humorous, warm memoir of family life in the countryside from bestselling author, Clare Mackintosh.

Reducere. "A man can fight if he can see daylight down the road somewhere, " President Lyndon Johnson told a senator in March 1965. "But there ain't no dayli...

The Story of One Tells the Struggle of All: Metalworkers under Apartheid is the third volume in the Hidden Voices Series. It is comprised of two bo...

DescriptionIn Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but al...

Reducere. Join JC and his family as they take over the family farm. This is where the adventure begins. A new world opens to a family of five. Farm life is a...