The Opening Country
Autor John Micklewrighten Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mar 2021
The Opening Country is a beautifully written account of his progress through the French countryside, an evocative patchwork of landscape, nature, history, literature, film, and - drawing on his father's diaries that stretch back to the 1930s - of memoir.
Always curious, absorbing all around him, ready on a whim to divert from his chosen route as he heads unhurriedly southwards. The natural world unfolds as spring turns to summer with surprises of bird song and butterflies, against a constant background of reminders of the economic and social story of rural France and of wars past. The result is an engrossing record of a classic long-distance walk through Britain's nearest continental neighbour.
The Opening Country is a book to fire the imagination - a call to travel slowly, to open eyes and ears, to discover and explore.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781800461277
ISBN-10: 1800461275
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Troubador Publishing
ISBN-10: 1800461275
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Troubador Publishing
Notă biografică
John Micklewright is an academic economist, latterly professor at University College London, working on poverty and inequality with a number of books on these subjects. He lived and worked for years in Italy including a spell with the UN. When not walking in France, he lives in Winchester.
Descriere
For twenty-five years, John Micklewright rushed through France in his haste to get to Italy. In this journey of re-discovery, he travels the slow way, on foot, on paths, tracks and byways from the Channel to the Alps - from the coast of Normandy to the flanks of Mont Blanc.