Notes from a Small Island
Title | Notes from a Small Island PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Bryson |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2015-06-02 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0062417436 |
Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie’s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey.
Notes from an Island
Title | Notes from an Island PDF eBook |
Author | Tove Jansson |
Publisher | Sort of Books |
Pages | 105 |
Release | 2021-10-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1908745959 |
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the solitude and shifting seascapes. Notes from an Island, published in English for the first time, is both a chronicle of this period and a homage to the mature love that Tove and 'Tooti' shared for their island and for each other. Tove's spare prose, and Tuulikki's subtle washes and aquatints combine to form a work of meditative beauty. '... Tooti wandered aimlessly around the island and stood stock still for long periods. I thought I knew what she was doing. She was working again. Copperplate etchings and wash drawings. Mostly the lagoon, the lagoon as a consummate mirror for clouds and birds, the lagoon in a storm, in fog. And the granite, first and foremost, the granite, the cliff, the rocks. It's all peace and quiet now.'
Island Notes
Title | Island Notes PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Higham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Naturalists |
ISBN | 9781988595405 |
An off-grid house on Aotea Great Barrier Island promises to fulfil one man's dreams, until cracks start to appear. Part Man Alone, part love story, Island Notes explores questions of belonging, loss and impermanence and whether the life, seas and forests of a wild island can offer a reconciliation with our past. Award-winning science writer and advocate for the wilderness Tim Higham has written a memoir that draws inspiration from some of the great nature writers, while establishing his own distinctive and informed voice and a sense of place that could only be Aotearoa. From the publishers who brought you Ockham-longlisted Towards Compostela by Catharina van Bohemen.
Notes From an Even Smaller Island
Title | Notes From an Even Smaller Island PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Humphreys |
Publisher | Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2008-11-15 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9814398942 |
Sandwich Island Notes
Title | Sandwich Island Notes PDF eBook |
Author | Haölé |
Publisher | |
Pages | 506 |
Release | 1854 |
Genre | Hawaii |
ISBN |
The Island of Cuba ... Translated ... with Notes, and a Preliminary Essay by J. S. Thrasher
Title | The Island of Cuba ... Translated ... with Notes, and a Preliminary Essay by J. S. Thrasher PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander von Humboldt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1856 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Final Notes From A Great Island
Title | Final Notes From A Great Island PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Humphreys |
Publisher | Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2010-01-15 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9814398969 |