Patrick Bishop:A Good War
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NY: The Century Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards worn and shaken, one plate loose, spine . and front hinge cracked, pages toned.. 1918. First American Edition. Hardcover. Red clo… Meer...
NY: The Century Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards worn and shaken, one plate loose, spine . and front hinge cracked, pages toned.. 1918. First American Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth with titles stamped in black on spine. Translated from the French by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and Bernard Miall. 20 black and white photograph reproductions. Index. A collection of natural history observations from Fabre's Provencal house and grounds, the Harmas, seen with Fabre and his daughters in the foreground of the frontispiece photo. Fabre discusses beetles, spiders, flies, caterpillars, grasshoppers and his unusual experiments with trussing up dead mice, moles, and birds and watching how insects and arachnids attempt to wrestle them free back to their lairs. His Harmas home is now a natural history museum. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages ., The Century Company, 1918, Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2003. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 213 pgs, index, b&w photos. Addresses the real reasons people catch trout, and offers suggestions and tips to help the aspiring fisherman. Signed by the author., Lyons Press, 2003, Hardcover. Good. Edward Arnold, London, 1900, first edition; 8vo, 145 x 205mm, pp viii, 344 plus 16pp publisher's catalogue dated February 1904; 26 illustrations in the text; blue cloth, spine gilt; holograph ownership inscription on the front fly and a neat name on the title page; corner points slightly rubbed and with a little rubbing at the top and foot of the spine and lightly on the hinges; generally a good or better copy. ... ... ... Morgan, 1852-1936, was a pupil of T H Huxley and from 1884 taught at University College Bristol as an ethologist and psychologist.He developed a theory of emergent evolution as well as the approach to animal psychology known as Morgan's Canon, the latter of which played an important role in the development of behaviourism in the early 20th century. Thgis book began as an update to his earlier "Animal Life and Intelligence" but during the writing diverged from the previous scheme of arrangement and so was duly published as a completely new work, albeit with occasional overlaps with the earlier., Lyons Press, 2012-03-06. Second. Paperback. Used:Good., Lyons Press, 2012-03-06, London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; Some shelf wear and tear to unclipped . DJ, fly shadows to endpapers, two ink names to front endpaper, another . struck through to top of front fly. ; Green cloth boards with gilt . lettering to spine. Second printing of second edtion being the fifth . impression overall.. 1938. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second Printing; Charts & Graphs; 282 pages; Based on a series of lectures given by the author in America in 1923-24 when visiting Professor of Education at Columbia University. Topics covered include Play, The Learning Process, The Nervous System, Maze Experiments, The Nature of Satisfaction & Dissatisfaction, Brain Localization, Interests & Prejudices, Repression & Sublimation, Intelligence & Achievement Tests. ., George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1938, On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skinssome collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather themand escaped into the darkness.Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature., Viking, 2018, Hodder & Stoughton, UK, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 400 pages. Available Now. Book Description: Adam Tomaszewski is a Polish airman, flying Hurricanes alongside British pilots as the Battle of Britain rages in the summer skies over Kent and Sussex. Facing death daily and far from his friends and family, Adam finds himself drawn to a maverick Irish soldier called Gerry Cunningham.: 'You're out of luck, brother,' are the first words Gerry says when they meet in the crush of men competing for the few women at a dance in a seaside hotel, but when Gerry betrays his lover Moira, Adam's fortunes seem to have changed. For the next four years, Adam's life and Gerry's are intertwined like good luck and bad, love and loss, life and death, their paths crossing at various points on Adam's perilous journey from the ruins of Poland to the rolling English countryside, from Egypt to Occupied France.: A hauntingly evocative picture of wartime Britain, a twisting drama of fighting behind enemy lines, a compelling, suspenseful love story, A GOOD WAR proves Patrick Bishop - already acclaimed as a great historian of the war in the air - to be a superbly gifted novelist. : Review: A measured, lyrical novel of remarkable scope and poise, A GOOD WAR is also replete with the realism and authenticity that are the author's hallmark...wonderfully evocative...A GOOD WAR confirms Patrick Bishop as a writer of fiction who has come of age (Damien Lewis, bestselling author of Cobra Gold): Superbly written and authoritative (Observer on Bomber Boys): One of the most profoundly moving books about the war to have emerged in recent memory (Sunday Telegraph on Bomber Boys): As one of the bravest and best war correspondents alive, Bishop has an instinctive sympathy for his subject (Standard on Bomber Boys): A terrific book, so riveting, exciting and moving...a true memorial (Spectator on Bomber Boys): Bishop writes an exciting aerial dogfight, rich in the telling detail that makes for authenticity. Yet this is a good deal more than a bloke's yarn, with well-drawn, convincing characters and plenty of what the movie-makers used to call love interest, too. One for the beach - but probably not for the plane there. (Daily Mail): Patrick Bishop turns novelist in this beautifully crafted love story. In its evocation of time and place it rings true at every turn. (Mail on Sunday) : Book Description: Superb debut thriller from the author of non-fiction bestsellers Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys Size: 16.1 x 3.7 x 24.1 cm. 400 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Crime Fiction; Hardbacks; ISBN: 0340951702. ISBN/EAN: 9780340951705. Inventory No: B207-1077. This book is potentially heavy when packed and may require more postage than the rates shown. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost.. 9780340951705 This item is heavier than our average offer, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.., Hodder & Stoughton, 2008<
