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21 produkter
Book of Eels
Their Lives, Secrets and Myths
Av Tom Fort
Häftad, 2003
160 kr
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What has been the dish of kings, the subject of myths and the traveller of epic and mysterious journeys? The eel.Beginning life in the Sargasso Sea, the eel travels across the ocean, lives for twenty or so years, and then is driven by some instinct back across the ocean to spawn and die. And the …
Grass is Greener
An Anglo-Saxon Passion
Av Tom Fort
Häftad, 2008
189 kr
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Grass and its organisation into lawns is a particularly English obsession.If an Englishman’s house is his castle, then his lawn is most certainly his estate. Occupying a place in the national psyche comparable to that of afternoon tea, the English concept of the ideal lawn has evolved and altered …
Grass is Greener
An Anglo-Saxon Passion
Av Tom Fort
E-bok, 2016
120 kr
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Grass and its organisation into lawns is a particularly English obsession.If an Englishman’s house is his castle, then his lawn is most certainly his estate. Occupying a place in the national psyche comparable to that of afternoon tea, the English concept of the ideal lawn has evolved and altered …
Book of Eels
Their Lives, Secrets and Myths
Av Tom Fort
E-bok, 2020
102 kr
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What has been the dish of kings, the subject of myths and the traveller of epic and mysterious journeys? The eel.Beginning life in the Sargasso Sea, the eel travels across the ocean, lives for twenty or so years, and then is driven by some instinct back across the ocean to spawn and die. And the …
Casting Shadows
Fish and Fishing in Britain
Av Tom Fort
E-bok, 2020
102 kr
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A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Peer into the secret, silent world of the freshwater fish and explore evolution of the art and industry of fishing in Britain's rivers and streams. From cunning Neolithic traps, intricate Roman nets and quarrellous Victorian societies to the evolution of …
Casting Shadows
Fish and Fishing in Britain
Av Tom Fort
Ljudbok, 2020
214 kr
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A Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearPeer into the secret, silent world of the freshwater fish and explore evolution of the art and industry of fishing in Britain''s rivers and streams.From cunning Neolithic traps, intricate Roman nets and quarrellous Victorian societies to the evolution of …
Casting Shadows
Fish and Fishing in Britain
Av Tom Fort
Häftad, 2021
136 kr
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A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Peer into the secret, silent world of the freshwater fish and explore evolution of the art and industry of fishing in Britain's rivers and streams. From cunning Neolithic traps, intricate Roman nets and quarrellous Victorian societies to the evolution of …
Book of Eels
Their Lives, Secrets and Myths
Av Tom Fort
Ljudbok, 2020
221 kr
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What has been the dish of kings, the subject of myths and the traveller of epic and mysterious journeys? The eel.Beginning life in the Sargasso Sea, the eel travels across the ocean, lives for twenty or so years, and then is driven by some instinct back across the ocean to spawn and die. And the …
A303
Highway to the Sun
Av Tom Fort
E-bok, 2012
121 kr
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''A nostalgic experience, informative, humorous, charming, but pervaded by the bitter-sweet scent of regret'' Daily Mail The A303 is more than a road. It is a story. One of the essential routes of English motoring and the road of choice to the West Country for thousands of holidaymakers, the A303 …
Lido Land
How Britain Learned to Make a Splash
Av Tom Fort
E-bok, 2026
214 kr
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'Tom Fort has a unique knack of finding new ways to reflect Britain back to ourselves and Lido Land may be his best book yet!' Charlie Connelly, author of The Shipping NewsPeople are currently flocking back to Britain's lidos in their thousands. But this isn't the first time they've made a …
Lido Land
How Britain Learned to Make a Splash
Av Tom Fort
Inbunden, 2026
242 kr
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'Tom Fort has a unique knack of finding new ways to reflect Britain back to ourselves and Lido Land may be his best book yet!' Charlie Connelly, author of The Shipping NewsPeople are currently flocking back to Britain’s lidos in their thousands. But this isn’t the first time they’ve made a …
Against the Flow
Av Tom Fort
E-bok, 2010
144 kr
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'You have to be on your guard when you go back to special places. You may be able to locate them easily enough on the map, but maps tell only one story. Times change and places and people with them. The memory plays curious tricks, and things aren't always as you remember or expect.' Twenty years …
Channel Shore
From the White Cliffs to Land's End
Av Tom Fort
Häftad, 2016
116 kr
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The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world. Ferries steam back and forth, trains thunder through the tunnel. The narrow sea has been crucial to our development and prosperity. It helps define our notion of Englishness, as an island people, a nation of seafarers. It is also our …
Channel Shore
From the White Cliffs to Land''s End
Av Tom Fort
E-bok, 2015
121 kr
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The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world. Ferries steam back and forth, trains thunder through the tunnel. The narrow sea has been crucial to our development and prosperity. It helps define our notion of Englishness, as an island people, a nation of seafarers. It is also our …
Village News
The Truth Behind England's Rural Idyll
Av Tom Fort
Häftad, 2019
118 kr
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‘An entertaining book, written with Fort’s characteristic conversational style… A real pleasure to read’ – BBC Countryfile‘A wide-ranging, intelligent and bracingly enjoyable book’ – The Literary Review‘Meticulously researched and seasoned with wry humour, this is a perceptive and richly rewarding …
Village News
The Truth Behind England''s Rural Idyll
Av Tom Fort
E-bok, 2017
121 kr
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‘An entertaining book, written with Fort’s characteristic conversational style… A real pleasure to read’ – BBC Countryfile ‘A wide-ranging, intelligent and bracingly enjoyable book’ – The Literary Review ‘ Meticulously researched and seasoned with wry humour , this is a perceptive and richly …
A303
Highway to the Sun
Av Tom Fort
Häftad, 2019
133 kr
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'A nostalgic experience, informative, humorous, charming, but pervaded by the bitter-sweet scent of regret' Daily Mail'Fort has an eye for the quirky, the absurd, the pompous and a style that, like the road, is always on the move' Sunday Telegraph'A lovely book...At last someone has celebrated the …
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets
Life in the village hardware shop
Av Tom Fort
Häftad, 2024
151 kr
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'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say it, considerable polish' - Country LifeIn 2018 Tom Fort's daughter-in-law took over a century-old hardware shop. The family dreamed …
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets
Life in the village hardware shop
Av Tom Fort
Inbunden, 2023
266 kr
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Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets is The Repair Shop meets The Diary of a Bookseller all conveyed in Tom Fort's signature easy-going writing style.
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets
Life in the village hardware shop
Av Tom Fort
E-bok, 2023
45 kr
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''A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical'' - The Sunday Times , BOOK OF THE WEEK ''A paean to DIY'' - The Times ''Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say it, considerable polish'' - Country Life In 2018 Tom Fort''s daughter-in-law took over a century-old hardware shop. The …
Far from Compleat Angler
Av Tom Fort
Häftad, 2021
201 kr
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Tom Fort, former angling correspondent for the Financial Times, is one of the most incisive and funny fishing writers in Britain today.This sparkling collection of his writings finds Tom at Ceausescu's bear-hunting lodge in Romania, at a fishing auction in the Home Counties, being thwarted by a …
