Four Fields
In this book, Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields spread around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their skies, and both their natural and human histories. These four fields-walkable, mappable, man-made, mowable, knowable, but also secretive, mysterious, wild, contested, and changing-play central roles in the sweeping panorama of world history and in the lives of individuals. In Dee's telling, a field is never just a setting for great battles or natural disasters, though it is often this as well. A field is the oldest and simplest and truest measure of what a man needs in life, especially when looked at, contemplate…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61902-461-8
- EAN: 9781619024618
- Produktnummer: 16553809
- Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B14.2 cm x D3.0 cm 440 g
- Gewicht: 440
Über den Autor
Tim Dee was born in Liverpool in 1961. He has worked as a BBC radio producer for more than twenty years and divides his life between Bristol and Cambridge. His first book, The Running Sky: A Birdwatching Life, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2009.
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