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22%OFFAnna Pavord - Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places - 9781408868935 - V9781408868935
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Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places

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Description for Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 B&W chapter opening illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; HB; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 226.
A ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. Landskipping explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land, beginning in the eighteenth century when artists first started to paint English scenery, and the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind of visitor, the landscape tourist. Meanwhile, at the same time, an entirely different band of people, the agricultural improvers, also travelled the land, looking at it in terms of its usefulness as well as its beauty. What emerges ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408868935
SKU
V9781408868935
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Anna Pavord
Anna Pavord's books include her bestseller, The Tulip, The Naming of Names, and her most recent work, The Curious Gardener. Her column in the Independent newspaper appeared in it from its launch in 1986 to its closure in 2016. She writes and presents programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and served for ten years on the Gardens Panel of ... Read more

Reviews for Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
Rangey, deeply felt and sometimes luminous ... Like the raking light that exposes ancient lynchets at sunset, such knowledge brings out new detail in the one particular view over a gate which Pavord has loved in all seasons, and which she now evokes for us as it changes through a full year. From the vantage point of this ending, ... Read more

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