Julia Blackburn Forfatter
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Charles Waterton 1782-1865: Traveller and Conservationist (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian... Læs mere
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Old Man Goya (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life.
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My Animals and Other Family (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar and the tropical fish, tortoises, chickens, guinea pigs, foxes, pigs, and two dogs. This book recalls the animals in the... Læs mere
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The Book Of Colour: A Family Memoir (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
'Wandering through dreams and nightmares from Praslin Islands to Mauritius and finally to England, the author unfolds the troubled lives of her forbears, cursed by racial prejudice, sexual inhibition and recurrent mental illness.
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The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St Helena (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Emperor's Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have accumulated around Napoleon and his sojourn here.
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The Three of Us: A Family Story (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
when he later committed suicide the relationship between mother and daughter was shattered irrevocably. Or so it seemed until the spring of 1999, when Rosalie, diagnosed with leukaemia, came to live with Julia for the last month of her life.
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Daisy Bates in the Desert (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Ms Bates says she was most happy.
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Thin Paths: Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999.
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Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill.
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Murmurations of Love, Grief & Starlings (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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