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Description for Riviera Nature Notes
Paperback. Editor(s): Cassy, Rob. Num Pages: 292 pages, 40ill. BIC Classification: 3JJC; WN; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
"The spread of the towns, the disforesting of the hills, and other causes are conspiring to destroy many of the conditions which made the Riviera of former days so happy a resort for the lovers of Nature. But there will always be much to observe and much to study in so favoured a region." Quirky, erudite and eminently readable, the fifty-four essays comprising Riviera Nature Notes give an astonishingly clear picture of plant and animal life in the South of France at the turn of the twentieth century--not to mention a fascinating insight into the social mores of the ... Read more
"The spread of the towns, the disforesting of the hills, and other causes are conspiring to destroy many of the conditions which made the Riviera of former days so happy a resort for the lovers of Nature. But there will always be much to observe and much to study in so favoured a region." Quirky, erudite and eminently readable, the fifty-four essays comprising Riviera Nature Notes give an astonishingly clear picture of plant and animal life in the South of France at the turn of the twentieth century--not to mention a fascinating insight into the social mores of the ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Gardners Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781902669830
SKU
KTG0012766
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About
Rob Cassy is a gardener and horticultural consultant whose books include the best-selling Garden UK, A Shortcut to Perfect Planting, Everything You Need to Know about Gardening and The Ultimate Language of Flowers. When he stumbled upon a rare first edition of Riviera Nature Notes in the stall of an antiquarian book-dealer by the Seine he knew straight away it ... Read more
Reviews for Riviera Nature Notes
"...A charming and timely re-edition of this long-forgotten classic." Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor, authors of Paradise Transformed, presenters of The Curious Gardeners.