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Author | : Allen Lacy |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1988-03 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 0374520631 |
In this splendid collection of short essays, gardener, writer, and professor Allen Lacy takes readers on a series of garden excursions, beginning at home. Lacy writes of his experiences with a variety of plants--evening primrose, prairie gentian, sumac, coreopsis, fuchsias, gloriosa lilies--in his own garden in New Jersey. Then he charts his travels to other gardens, in the United States, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands. Final essays in Farther Afield include a discussion of garden writing, profiles of other horticulturists, and humorous pieces on cats and houseplants, and, of course, flamingoes.
Author | : Miss Read |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2007-11-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547346786 |
A schoolmistress’s summer vacation is ruined—or is it?—in this delightful English village tale. The end of a school year often brings a burst of joy to children’s hearts—and unmitigated rapture to those of their teachers. And so it is for Miss Read, schoolmistress in the charming English village of Fairacre. She happily anticipates long weeks to call her own, free of timetables, bells, children and their parents. But on the very first day of the summer holiday, while retrieving lining paper from her landing cupboard, she falls and breaks her arm. Will she now spend her holiday resigned to the ministrations of the dour Mrs. Pringle? Just when the summer seems to be ruined, Miss Read’s old friend, Amy Garfield, comes to her aid with a diverting suggestion. They can travel to Crete for two weeks, the change of scenery providing a welcome break for them both—and perhaps when Miss Read returns, refreshed, to her beloved village, she’ll be ready to tackle the various quandaries and mishaps that await her . . . “The more turbulent the real world, the more charming we may find the stability of Miss Read’s tiny fictional world.” —Los Angeles Times “Miss Read has three great gifts—an unerring intuition about human frailty, a healthy irony, and, surprisingly, an almost beery sense of humor.” —The New Yorker
Author | : Miss Read |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Country life |
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Author | : Oliver Gregory Pike |
Publisher | : Bell and Cockburn |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Bird watching |
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Author | : Patrick D. Murphy |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813919065 |
Murphy's wide-ranging book will no doubt serve as a watershed in the development of ecocriticism.
Author | : Dora Jessie Read |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Large type books |
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Author | : Noel Malcolm |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 651 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0190262788 |
The story of a Venetian-Albanian family in the late sixteenth century forms the basis of a sweeping account of the interaction between East and West Europe and the Ottoman Empire at a pivotal moment in history.
Author | : Miss Read |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Country life |
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Miss Read is looking forward to her summer holidays but she falls and breaks her arm on the very first day. Her old friend Amy takes her to recuperate on the island of Crete. When they return to Fairacre they are refreshed and ready to approach life with new insight.
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Total Pages | : 1142 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1957 |
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