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John Hillaby
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Journey Home (Travel Literature) |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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256 |
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1983-10-10 |
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0094650500 |
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Constable |
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0.88 pounds |
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5.98 x 8.74 x 0.71 inches |
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Revised edition |
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Product Description
John Hillaby travel writing at its best. John is not walking alone he is joined by his new wife Katie. They sety out from Ravenglass, a mere pocket-handkerchief of a place on the Cumbrian coast and end up on Hampstead Heath in London. Tapping a seemingly inexhaustable seam of knowledge of natural history, archaelogy and folklore, and accompanied on the way by like-minded authors of yesterday, John Hillaby blends his allusions to the past with comments on topical, commonplace things to create a confection which is recognisably and unmistakingly his own. He both encourages and inspires us, for (as one critic put it) 'he writes with the beautiful precision of an engraver.
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http://bookmooch.com/0094650500 |
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