The Quantock Hills

Author : Hazel Riley
Publisher : Historic England Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historic Landscape of the Quantock Hills written by Hazel Riley and published by Historic England Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quantock Hills, famous for their associations with Coleridge and Wordsworth in the 19th century, have been the canvas on which are sketched the shadowy images of people who lived on the land from prehistoric times to the present. There are Bronze Age cairns and burial mounds, Iron Age hillforts, Roman settlements, medieval manors and post-medieval estates, right through to stark monuments of the Second World War and the Cold War. This book presents and interprets the Quantocks landscape after a dedicated programme of archaeological fieldwork, air photograph transcription and architectural investigation by English Heritage. It describes the results in a readable book including full colour illustrations and line drawings throughout, plus a series of lively reconstruction paintings by the artist Jane Brayne.

Author : Ruth Elwin Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sarah's Story written by Ruth Elwin Harris and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four independent-minded sisters come of age in the early 1900s - and four interwoven novels tell their stories, each through a different sister's eyes. The year is 1910, and the four Purcell sisters have only each other. Their mother has died, leaving them orphans in a rambling country estate. But with the help of the Mackenzies - their guardian and his family, whom the sisters come to love in very different ways - Sarah, Frances, Julia, and Gwen find the courage to follow their own paths in a world that is rapidly changing. Avid readers and fans of historical-fiction classics will love these spirited heroines - named "the Little Women of our times" by the TIMES of London - and will be thoroughly absorbed by their intertwining tales, full of feistiness, creativity, and young romance.

Author : Beatrix F. Cresswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quantock Hills written by Beatrix F. Cresswell and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beatrix F. Cresswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quantock Hills written by Beatrix F. Cresswell and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruth Elwin Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780763617042
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frances' Story written by Ruth Elwin Harris and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four independent-minded sisters come of age in the early 1900s - and four interwoven novels tell their stories, each through a different sister's eyes. The year is 1910, and the four Purcell sisters have only each other. Their mother has died, leaving them orphans in a rambling country estate. But with the help of the Mackenzies - their guardian and his family, whom the sisters come to love in very different ways - Sarah, Frances, Julia, and Gwen find the courage to follow their own paths in a world that is rapidly changing. Avid readers and fans of historical-fiction classics will love these spirited heroines - named "the Little Women of our times" by the TIMES of London - and will be thoroughly absorbed by their intertwining tales, full of feistiness, creativity, and young romance.

Author : W. A. E. Ussher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geology of the Quantock Hills and of Taunton and Bridgwater written by W. A. E. Ussher and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fiona Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780748760
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fight for Beauty written by Fiona Reynolds and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world where the drive for economic growth is crowding out everything that can’t be given a monetary value. We’re stuck on a treadmill where only the material things in life gain traction and it’s getting harder to find space for the things that really matter but money can’t buy, including our future. Fiona Reynolds proposes a solution that is at once radical and simple – to inspire us through the beauty of the world around us. Delving into our past, examining landscapes, nature, farming and urbanisation, she shows how ideas about beauty have arisen and evolved, been shaped by public policy, been knocked back and inched forward until they arrived lost in the economically-driven spirit of today. A passionate, polemical call to arms, The Fight for Beauty presents an alternative path forward: one that, if adopted, could take us all to a better future.

Author : Adam Nicolson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374721270
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Poetry written by Adam Nicolson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing—Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and “Kubla Khan,” as well as his unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood, and William Wordsworth’s revolutionary songs in Lyrical Ballads along with “Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth's paean to the unity of soul and cosmos, love and understanding. In The Making of Poetry, Adam Nicolson embeds himself in the reality of this unique moment, exploring the idea that these poems came from this particular place and time, and that only by experiencing the physical circumstances of the year, in all weathers and all seasons, at night and at dawn, in sunlit reverie and moonlit walks, can the genesis of the poetry start to be understood. The poetry Wordsworth and Coleridge made was not from settled conclusions but from the adventure on which they embarked, thinking of poetry as a challenge to all received ideas, stripping away the dead matter, looking to shed consciousness and so change the world. What emerges is a portrait of these great figures seen not as literary monuments but as young men, troubled, ambitious, dreaming of a vision of wholeness, knowing they had greatness in them but still in urgent search of the paths toward it. The artist Tom Hammick accompanied Nicolson for much of the year, making woodcuts from the fallen timber in the park at Alfoxden where the Wordsworths lived. Interspersed throughout the book, his images bridge the centuries, depicting lives at the source of our modern sensibility: a psychic landscape of doubt and possibility, full of beauty and thick with desire for a kind of connectedness that seems permanently at hand and yet always out of reach.

Author : Craig Hutchings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841149332
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait of the Quantock Hills written by Craig Hutchings and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of over 140 photographs depicts one of England's little gems, the Quantock Hills. Craig Hutchings demonstrates his love of this wonderful landscape, not only through the well known vistas but those secret places only a local would know.

Author : Berta Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantock Country written by Berta Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: