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John Stewart Collis

The Wood

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An academic and writer, during the Second World War John Stewart Collis was put to agricultural work. Clearing and thinning an Ash wood, he found a meditative peace and an earnest pleasure in the use of axe and bill-hook. The Wood contains his beautiful, thoughtful writing on the joys of nature and of a life of activity, how a love of the sun affects a man, and the progression of nature that sees each plant - hawthorn, honeysuckle, larch, elder - have its hour.Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians a… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-241-19768-4
  • EAN: 9780241197684
  • Produktnummer: 17831866
  • Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 128 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 348 KB

Über den Autor


John Stewart Collis (1900-1984) was a writer whose books included biographies of George Bernard Shaw, Tolstoy and Christopher Columbus. He is best remembered for The Worm Forgives the Plough, from which The Wood is extracted

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