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The countryside, country life

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The countryside, country life

Paperback. Working with the Curlew is an intimate and evocative account of an era before factory farming, when farmers worked closely with nature and the rhythm of the seasons, a smallholding could sustain a family, and there were enough small farms for a shepherd to climb the ladder to ownership. Num Pages: 128 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BG; TV; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Green Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903998342
ISBN
9781903998342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.87

Paperback. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc London
Edition
Paperback
Number of pages
320
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0220162
ISBN
9780747590316
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. 'One Man and His Dog' meets James Herriot meets the Dog Listener Num Pages: 352 pages, 35 b/w integrated. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWD; TVH; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Headline
Condition
New
SKU
9780755312351
ISBN
9780755312351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.72

Paperback. A follow-up to "Country Wisdom and Know-How", this book provides 373 hints, tips, and activities for living the simpler life all year round, and information on weather, gardening and cooking by season, holidays, frost dates, moon phases, and more. It is divided into the four seasons of the year and then organized into 373 individual tips. Editor(s): Koh, Becky. Num Pages: 316 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: WBA; WKH; WM; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 362. 373 Tips, Hints, Crafts, Recipes, Home Improvements, and Homemade Remedies for Living the Simple Life All Year Round. 288 pages, b&w illustrations. Editor(s): Koh, Becky. A follow-up to "Country Wisdom and Know-How", this book provides 373 hints, tips, and activities for living the simpler life all year round, and information on weather, gardening and cooking by season, holidays, frost dates, moon phases, and more. It is divided into the four seasons of the year and then organized into 373 individual tips. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WBA; WKH; WM; WND. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 22. Weight: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781579127749
ISBN
9781579127749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

Paperback. In the 1940s and '50s, Joe, the son of stage and film star Leslie Henson, chose a completely different path, alien to his thespian parents and decided to pursue a career as a farmer. In this book, he reveals the family traits, childhood experiences and farming wisdom which have made him the man he is today. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: APT; BGA; TV; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 241.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9781785940729
ISBN
9781785940729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.28

Paperback. Navigating family tensions and the trials of growing up, the author describes the close-knit community of North Yorkshire and his family's place within it: the shepherd probing the head-high snowdrifts for his flock; the pub landlord obsessed with military uniforms; and the village doctor lost in his love for the purple moorland. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BG; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099542353
ISBN
9780099542353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; TVH; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780241273357
ISBN
9780241273357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 9.71

hardcover. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWT; TV; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 276 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1048. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKEWT; TV; WND. Dimension: 250 x 276 x 19. Weight: 1040.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Dovecote Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904349877
ISBN
9781904349877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 11.06

Paperback. Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? In this book, the author takes you on a swimming tour of Britain, giving you a frog's-eye view of the country's best bathing holes - the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds lochs and sea that define this watery island. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BM; WND; WSSC; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 8. Weight in Grams: 84.
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
9781784872762
ISBN
9781784872762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.99
€ 6.48

Paperback. A wonderfully romantic memoir from a young shepherdess. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYN; BM; WND; WNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
SKU
9780751547399
ISBN
9780751547399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.15

Paperback. A jouney into the Vermont hills, where in the 19th century humans tried their hand, and where bear and moose now find shelter. Robert Frost's poem "Directive" accompanies the text, and sees the reader through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 fine line illustrations, 2 maps, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBBEV; DN; WND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674748897
ISBN
9780674748897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; BJ; HBJK; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816633227
ISBN
9780816633227
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.98

Paperback. The book offers step-by-step guidance to every management issue, from developing infrastructure to on-site health and safety, and is richly supported with diagrams, photographs, case studies and web-links. Editor(s): Keirle, Ian. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: KNSG; KNSP; RNF; WND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 175 x 13. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415248853
ISBN
9780415248853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 84.58

Paperback. The harshly magnificent landscape of the Elan Valley in Mid Wales was changed utterly in the late 1890s by a reservoir building project initiated by the Corporation of Birmingham in order to supply water to that expanding city. This title presents the author's account of hill farming life in the Elan Valley. Num Pages: 170 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 11. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Edition
Main
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571295890
ISBN
9780571295890
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.66

Paperback. Alice Taylor takes her readers along the byways of Ireland and into the heart of the country. In stories by turn comic and poignant, she explores the character of family and friends, testing the bonds of concern and kindness which hold people together. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BM; HBTB; VFV; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 17. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
O´Brien Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847178749
ISBN
9781847178749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.92

Paperback. Alice Taylor's classic account of growing up in the Irish countryside, the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. Beautifully illustrated throughout with a new introduction by the author. Num Pages: 240 pages, 65 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; BM; HBTB; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
O´Brien Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847178237
ISBN
9781847178237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.92

Paperback. Talks about the country dweller, who sees his or her world eroded by the wishy-washy liberal commands of Blairite do-gooders, who sit in North West London pontificating about the needs of country people. This book also deals with the devastations of the foot and mouth crisis that showed how the great divide between town and country dwellers. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; JFSF; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240. On Settling. 192 pages. Talks about the country dweller, who sees his or her world eroded by the wishy-washy liberal commands of Blairite do-gooders, who sit in North West London pontificating about the needs of country people. This book also deals with the devastations of the foot and mouth crisis that showed how the great divide between town and country dwellers. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; JFSF; WND. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 14. Weight: 240.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826490919
ISBN
9780826490919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; WNC; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846685538
ISBN
9781846685538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.80

Paperback. Captures the character of rural life before modern agriculture altered the landscape and changed forever they way we eat and live. Series: Nature Classics Library. Num Pages: 160 pages, B/w line drawings and colour lithographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKEA; 3JJG; TV; WND; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Little Toller Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
70th Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956254528
ISBN
9780956254528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.59

Paperback. The Compleat Angler is the most famous work in the literature of sport and a unique celebration of the English countryside. This new edition highlights its celebration of natural history, the environment, conservation, and the power of friendship. Editor(s): Swann, Marjorie. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 black and white, 4 maps. BIC Classification: WND; WSXF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129. .
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198745464
ISBN
9780198745464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.53

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