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27%OFFRichard Hines - No Way but Gentlenesse: A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life - 9781408868027 - V9781408868027
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No Way but Gentlenesse: A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life

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Description for No Way but Gentlenesse: A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JB; 3JD; BM; WNCB; WNGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining village of Hoyland Common, Richard Hines remembers heaps of coal dust, listening out for the colliery siren at the end of shifts and praying for his father's safe return. When he failed his eleven-plus it seemed all too likely that he would follow in his father's footsteps and end up working in the pits - unlike his older brother Barry, who had passed the exam to grammar school and seemed to be heading for great things. Crushed by this, Richard spent his time in the fields and meadows beyond ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408868027
SKU
V9781408868027
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Richard Hines
Richard Hines has worked as a building labourer, in an office, and he was Deputy Head in a school but has spent most of his career as a documentary filmmaker, starting his own production company and working for the BBC and Channel 4, before becoming a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He lives in Sheffield and frequently walks on the ... Read more

Reviews for No Way but Gentlenesse: A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life
This is a work of enchanting honesty and tenderness; it is as gentle and inspiring to the reader as a falconer is with his hawks. Hines has a deep and lifelong passion for birds of prey, creatures of implacable wildness which have nevertheless lived and hunted with humans for millennia. Full of fascinating detail about the training of raptors, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for No Way but Gentlenesse: A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life


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