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The East Country is a work of creative nonfiction in which the acclaimed nature writer Jules Pretty integrates memoir, natural history, cultural critique, and spiritual reflection into a single compelling narrative. Pretty frames his book around Aldo Leopold and his classic A Sand County Almanac, br...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pretty, Jules N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Travel.
Natural history.
Country life.
TRAVEL > Europe > Great Britain.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Natural history > England > Stour Valley (Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk)
Country life > England > Stour Valley (Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk)
England > Stour Valley (Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk, England)
Stour Valley (Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk, England) > Description and travel.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The East Country
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • A Geographic Locator
  • January
  • 1. The Winter Hesitation
  • 2. One Glossy Ibis and Many Ticks
  • 3. Winter Gales and Beliefs
  • 4. Walk the Line
  • 5. The Weight of a Snipe
  • 6. The Old Battlefield
  • February
  • 7. Paths and Prints in Snow
  • 8. Closing Time
  • 9. To Iken
  • 10. Saturation
  • 11. The Box Valley
  • March
  • 12. Disturbing Hints of Spring
  • 13. The Beach Crows
  • 14. Some Spring for Celandine
  • 15. Blackthorn Days
  • 16. The Blue Light of Spring
  • April
  • 17. Two Buzzards
  • 18. The Long Night of Hope19. Mystery Solved
  • 20. Nightingales and Green Men
  • 21. Sailorsâ#x80;#x99; Reading Room
  • 22. The Assington Elms
  • May
  • 23. The Owl and the Sun
  • 24. The Bat and the Wild
  • 25. Time Travel
  • 26. Since Records Began
  • 27. Bells in the Cow Parsley Season
  • 28. Encounters
  • 29. The Northern Sky
  • 30. All Four Migrants
  • June
  • 31. Magic in the Thicks
  • 32. The Lost Shore
  • 33. Hollyhock Summer
  • 34. A Submission
  • 35. Lay-Bys of the A12
  • 36. The Cottage Hospital
  • 37. Come Back the Wild
  • 38. AnniversaryJuly
  • 39. Village Edgelands
  • 40. Nature at a Nuclear Power Station
  • 41. Digging for Victory
  • 42. Under Another Atomic Sky
  • 43. Heat Wave
  • August
  • 44. Pause for Ragwort
  • 45. The End of the Road
  • 46. Nightwalk
  • 47. Soon, the Departure
  • 48. The Tinkerâ#x80;#x99;s Cottage
  • 49. The Turn
  • September
  • 50. The Path
  • 51. Mud Birds
  • 52. Angels in the Back Lanes
  • 53. Season of Mist and Fire
  • 54. In Memoriam
  • 55. The Rhythm of Farm Names
  • October
  • 56. Insect Life
  • 57. A New Anniversary
  • 58. Things and Doubt59. Alarm Call
  • 60. The Sands of Another Summer
  • 61. Wait for the End
  • November
  • 62. Bonfire Night
  • 63. At First, Silence
  • 64. The Night Hours
  • 65. Leaf Fall and Mists
  • 66. Beach Fishermen and Water Sprites
  • 67. Much Can Change in a Short Time
  • 68. Passing Years
  • December
  • 69. A Marsh Murmuration
  • 70. Poor Manâ#x80;#x99;s Heaven
  • 71. Dark and Wet at the Solstice
  • 72. Pruning and Planning
  • 73. Dark and Wet, Again
  • 74. An East Wind
  • Crossing the New Year
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes by Tale

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