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If we follow him across land and sea - to Italy, Greece and Albania, to The Levant and Egypt and India - and to the borderlands of spirit and self, art and desire, can we see, in the end, if the nonsense makes sense?
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By Uglow, Jenny
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Where do these human-like animals and birds and these odd adventures - some gentle, some violent, some musical, some wild - come from? In this book the author's many drawings that accompany his verse are almost hyper-real, as if he wants to free the creatures from the page. It de...pended on patrons and moved in establishment circles.
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In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. This book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate and unusual in every way.
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It looks at how artists have responded to two great, contrasting works, Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress; A brief coda turns to a fourth relationship: writers and artists who collaborate from the start, like Dickens and Phiz, and Lewis Carroll and Tenniel.
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At the end of the eighteenth-century Britain fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds marked the moment: the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. This biography tells a story of violent chan...ge, radical politics, lost ways of life and the beauty of the wild.
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Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. In the church, her masterpiece, she let her imagination flower - there are carvings of ammonites, scarabs and poppies; an arrow pierces the wall as if s...hot from a bow; a tortoise-gargoyle launches itself into the air.
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Every part of Britain felt the long twenty years of war against the French: one in five families had people in the services and over 300,000 men died. As the years passed, so the bullish, flamboyant figure of Napoleon - Boney, the bogeyman - came to dominate so much that the whol...e long conflict was given his name.
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| ISBN |
9780571312627 |
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| Released NZ |
4 Nov 2014 |
| Publisher |
Faber and Faber |
| Interest Age |
General Audience |
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By Uglow, Jenny
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Tells the story of Thomas Bewick - the farmer's son from Tyneside who became one of Britain's greatest and most popular engravers.
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A lavishly produced biography of the man whose wildlife illustrations shaped the way we view the natural world.
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9780571266630 |
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en |
| Released NZ |
31 Mar 2011 |
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Faber and Faber |
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General Audience |
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52
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A beautifully illustrated little book exploring the relationships between British writers and artists.
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9780571266647 |
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| Released NZ |
3 Feb 2011 |
| Publisher |
Faber and Faber |
| Interest Age |
16+ years |
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