Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... Sweet Thames Run Softlypor Robert Gibbings
Ninguno Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.
This is a book with a very special, personal sort of appeal. Call it to the attention of those who have a deep love for the old England, and would immortalize its to those who know its placid countryside, and would appreciate this contemplative, discursive, personal record of a journey by bont on the upper Thames. Gibbings enriches his story with 50 choice wood engravings, which make the book an ideal gift book. Pertenece a las series editorialesLittle Toller (13)
In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, Robert Gibbings launched his home-made punt on the River Thames and began a slow journey downstream, armed with a sketchpad and a microscope. From the river's source at the edge of the Cotswold Hills to the bustle of London's docks, Sweet Thames Run Softly is a charming, often eccentric account. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)914.22History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Europe England and Wales Southeastern England, Home Counties, Thames RiverClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
As he drifts, he muses and writes and produces those startlingly good woodcuts of his, and he looks and listens. From his gentle floating then we get this quiet charming book that wanders with his Celtic wit from bees to Greek fables. He actually packs a microscope aboard to inspect the smallest life he can find in the river’s mud.
Reading Gibbings on nature and the plants, insects and wildlife he discovers is like listening to one of the Bartrams, the great American father and son botanists, perhaps Puc-puggee himself but with his 18th century English updated into a more modern tongue. On hunting and big game fishing – both pursuits of which he was guilty of following when younger … ”By all means, Gibbings says, let us kill for food. I am even in favour of a mild form of cannibalism when necessary”!
There are several other touches of his “Oirish” wit among the clear facts of river wildlife, history of the villages and characters and several cheerfully suspicious yarns that must also be true, for, as he says “did I not just invent it myself?”