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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Linda Lear
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Description for Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Paperback. A collection of biographies: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland countryside; a daughter who defied her parents with her first tragically short engagement and who, finally was given a second chance of love and happiness. Num Pages: 608 pages, 4 x 8 page colour/black and white insets. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 464.
Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved stories: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland countryside; a daughter who defied her parents with her first tragically short engagement and who, finally was given a second chance of love and happiness.
Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved stories: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland countryside; a daughter who defied her parents with her first tragically short engagement and who, finally was given a second chance of love and happiness.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141003108
SKU
V9780141003108
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About Linda Lear
Always intrigued by how the lives of artists and writers have been influenced by the natural world, Linda Lear discovered quite by accident that Beatrix Potter had passions and interests way beyond those of her legendary series of little books for children. A professor of environmental history and the author of the prize-winning biography, Rachel Carson: Witness of ... Read more
Reviews for Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
One of the most interesting Englishwomen of her time
Charlotte Moore
Potter's marvellous voice, captured in letters and journals, comes through loud and clear ... Lear gives us much to consider about this unfamiliar and remarkable woman
Lavinia Greenlaw
Daily Telegraph
Lear blasts through the myths and misconceptions to reveal a Victorian rebel ... ... Read more
Charlotte Moore
Potter's marvellous voice, captured in letters and journals, comes through loud and clear ... Lear gives us much to consider about this unfamiliar and remarkable woman
Lavinia Greenlaw
Daily Telegraph
Lear blasts through the myths and misconceptions to reveal a Victorian rebel ... ... Read more