Analytical Human Geography
Author : Peter J. Ambrose
Publisher : Harlow : Longmans
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,2 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
In A Summer Season
Author : Elizabeth Taylor
Publisher : Virago
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0748131019
Book Description
In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: beautiful, often funny, and sometimes tragic. 'You taste of rain', he said, kissing her. 'People say I married her for her money', he thought contentedly, and for the moment was full of the self-respect that loving her had given him. Kate Heron is a wealthy, charming widow who marries, much to the disapproval of friends and neighbours, a man ten years her junior: the attractive, feckless Dermot. Then comes the return of Kate's old friend Charles - intelligent, kind and now widowed, with his beautiful young daughter. Kate watches happily as their two families are drawn together, finding his presence reassuringly familiar, but slowly she becomes aware of subtle undercurrents that begin to disturb the calm surface of their friendship. Before long, even she cannot ignore the gathering storm . . .
The Summer Book
Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Sort of Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1908745193
Book Description
Celebrating 50 years of Tove Jansson's classic, bestselling novel Featured in the BBC 2 Between the Covers Bookclub Special (Eurovision series 2023) 'Distils the essence of summer' Robert Macfarlane 'Magical, life-affirming' Elizabeth Gilbert The Worldwide Classic about a tiny island and larger love. An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very island itself. Written in a clear, unsentimental style, full of brusque humour, and wisdom, The Summer Book is a profoundly life-affirming story. Tove Jansson captured much of her own life and spirit in the book, which was her favourite of her adult novels. With a foreword by Esther Freud and an afterword by Sophia Jansson (on whom the child 'Sophia' is based) who returns to the island during the pandemic at the point of becoming a grandmother herself. Includes a 15pp epilogue by Tove's niece Sophia Jansson - the inspiration for 'Sophia' - on a personal and moving return to the island. 'Eccentric, funny, wise, full of joys and small adventures. This is a book for life.' Esther Freud 'Tove Jansson was a genius. This is a marvellous, beautiful, wise novel, which is also very funny.' Philip Pullman
My Jane Austen Summer
Author : Cindy Jones
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062078801
Book Description
“When one has read the six great Austen novels…and then reread and then reread the six again, one’s only recourse is the company of others equally bereft. Cindy Jones’s My Jane Austen Summer fills the gap with a nourishing Austen-soaked setting, a wonderfully surprising plot, and Lily, a delightfully peculiar heroine.” —Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club Author Cindy Jones has a gift for the millions of readers everywhere who have been enchanted by Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and the other wondrous works of the inimitable Austen—not to mention fans of more contemporary delights such as The Jane Austen Book Club. Jones’s My Jane Austen Summer is a delightful, funny, poignant novel in which a contemporary woman—an obsessed Austenphile—learns much about life, love, and herself during one magical summer in England spent re-enacting Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.
The Season
Author : Sophie Campbell
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1781311404
Book Description
When travel journalist Sophie Campbell squeezed into heels and a hat to investigate the English social season, she got more than she bargained for. Why, she wondered, were events such as the Chelsea Flower Show, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Derby at Epsom, Royal Ascot, the Henley Royal Regatta, Wimbledon Fortnight and Glorious Goodwood so formal, so fashionable and so famous? Her hectic and sometimes hilarious journey through the English summer proved as exotic as any tribal rite of passage as she swam the River Thames in the dark, partied with owners and trainers at Ascot, camped out for Wimbledon, joined Irish Travellers at The Derby, infiltrated the parents’ stand at the Eton v Harrow cricket match and got caught using a mobile in the Stewards’ Enclosure at Henley. En route she found a fascinating and surprisingly complex social structure dating back to the time of the Stuart monarchs and involving fashion, food, art and the marriage market. The English summer will never be the same again.
How the Summer Season Came
Author : Jerome Fourstar
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780917298943
Book Description
A collection of six traditional tales collected at Fort Peck reservation in northern Montana, which were originally intended to teach young members of the tribe about their history and culture.
In a Summer Season
Author : Elizabeth TAYLOR
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 1983
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Bull City Summer
Author : Howard L. Craft
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780988983168
Book Description
A team of artists find stories and images on the field and behind the scenes about the Durham Bulls.
The Summer Season
Author : Julia Williams
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007443242
Book Description
Passions flare, secrets unravel and love blossoms in the heart of the summer season.
And Then Comes Summer
Author : Tom Brenner
Publisher : Candlewick
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1536217379
Book Description
A joyful, sun-drenched tribute to the anticipation and adventures of the warmest season of the year. When the days stretch out like a slow yawn, and the cheerful faces of Johnny-jump-ups jump up . . . then it’s time to get ready for summer! From flip-flops and hide-and-seek to fireworks and ice-cream trucks, from lemonade stands and late bedtimes to swimming in the lake and toasting marshmallows, there’s something for everyone in this bright and buoyant celebration of the sunny season. Tom Brenner’s lovely, lyrical ode to summers spent outdoors will strike a chord with anyone who’s ever counted down the days until school gets out, and Jaime Kim’s jubilant, nostalgia-soaked illustrations leave little doubt that summer is indeed a time unlike any other.
