What to Look for in Summer
Author : Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Acclimatization (Plants)
ISBN :
Children's Nature
Author : Leslie Paris
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0814767079
Book Description
The summer camps have provided many American children's first experience of community beyond their immediate family and neighbourhoods. This title chronicles the history of the American summer camp, from its invention in the late nineteenth century through its rise in the first four decades of the twentieth century
The Summer Book
Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Sort of Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 11,73 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
Winter and Summer
Author : Shaun Berke
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2020-04-20
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
It is time for hidden beauty to raise spirits and conduct the will to purpose; time for the eternal children to come of age; time for us to gather together the fragments of truths so that we might overcome the long night of nihilism. It is time to see our world in our selves and to bear the responsibilities hanging between yesterday and tomorrow. It is up to each of us to find the values required to uphold a culture in balance with nature. Finding ourselves snowed in, the world confines itself, once again, to the Cave. It is time to strike fire, to carry the torch, to awaken the memory of a potential interred.Shaun Berke (b.1983) American painter, philosopher, bowhunter from Thousand Oaks, California. AS, Moorpark College. BFA, Art Center College of Design. Ancient Studies, The Nerdrum School. Member: Getty Research Institute; World Wide Kitsch; The Halkyon Guild. Awards: Portrait Society of America, The Art Renewal Center, Westlake Village Art Guild, Thousand Oaks Art Association, The Gerd Koch Paris Grant, The Alpine Fellowship.
The Nurture of Nature
Author : Sharon Wall
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0774858842
Book Description
Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies � antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity � shaped the development of summer camps and, consequently, modern social life in North America. A valuable resource for those interested in the connections between the history of childhood, the natural environment, and recreation, The Nature of Nurture will also appeal to anyone who has been packed off to camp and wants to explore why.
Summer in Arcady
Author : James Lane Allen
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Authors, American
ISBN :
Book Description
The Nature of Summer
Author : Jim Crumley
Publisher : Saraband
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1915089514
Book Description
'[A] beautiful book... [an] exceptional and intense quality of observation glows from every page... A wisdom that we need now, more than ever before.' Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman In the endless light of summer days, and the magical gloaming of the wee small hours, nature in Jim's beloved Highlands, Perthshire and Trossachs heartlands is burgeoning freely, as though there is one long midsummer's eve, nothing reserved. For our flora and fauna, for the very land itself, this is the time of extravagant growth, flowering and the promise of fruit and the harvest to come. But despite the abundance, as Jim Crumley attests, summer in the Northlands is no Wordsworthian idyll. Climate chaos and its attendant unpredictable weather brings high drama to the lives of the animals and birds he observes. There is also a wild, elemental beauty to the land, mountains, lochs, coasts and skies, a sense of nature at its very apex during this, the most beautiful and lush of seasons. Jim chronicles it all: the wonder, the tumult, the spectacle of summer.
Tao of Nature
Author : Mary Summer Rain
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0743407903
Book Description
The bestselling author of "Earthway" shows readers how to love and care for themselves as they learn to appreciate the beauty in nature. Mary Summer Rain has interwoven her observations as a naturalist with spiritual philosophy to share with the world the lessons of nature's beauty and power.
Shaping Up Summer
Author : Lizann Flatt
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2018-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781445157825
Book Description
Bringing Nature Home
Author : Ngoc Minh Ngo
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0847838005
Book Description
Unlike most flower-arrangement books, which rely on expensive and often nonseasonal flowers from florists, this book presents an alternative that is in line with the “back to nature” movement. This is the first volume to showcase how to be inspired by nature’s seasonal bounty and bring that nature into the home through floral arrangements. From the well-known lifestyle photographer Ngoc Minh Ngo and Nicolette Owen of Brooklyn’s Little Flower School, Bringing Nature Home presents a portfolio of unique and original floral arrangements directly inspired by the seasons and the local environment, with sources ranging from farmers’ market offerings to the backyard garden. Presented through lush photography that also showcases the beautiful interiors the arrangements are created for, this is as much a decorating tome as it is a floral-arrangement guide. A how-to section offers advice on the selection, trimming, and care of the arrangements and on repurposed and unique containers, making this book practical as well as inspiring.
