Tales of the Country Eccentrics

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

1996
David & Charles (Verlag)
978-0-7153-0347-4 (ISBN)

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A celebration of all that is quirky about the way the British live, told through the words of a range of living eccentrics and some examples from the past. Figures include the former nun who now collects Lego sets, the car salesman who races lawnmowers and the inventor who rides a penny farthing.

Merlin Maddock, Pontycymmer, Glamorgan, Wales - inventor; Monique Huiscamp, Hailsham, Sussex - a gardener with a difference; Michael Levey, Westcott, Surrey - lawnmower racer; Jack Harris, Ashford, Middlesex - an eagle in my garden; Lord Niedpath, Stanway, Gloucestershire - landowner and pigeon fancier; Irene Peeling, Wentworth, Cambridgeshire - the queen of coursing; Charlie Bray, Cole Henley, Hampshire - conker champion; Ernie James, Welney, Norfolk - eels, hives and giant guns; Majorie Hotston Moore, Milborne Port, Dorset - a nun on the run; Bill Curtis, Denbighshire, North Wales - the military man; Edward Dorrell, Preston, Shropshire - the sheep racer; Swein Macdonald, Ardgay Ross-shire - soothsayer; eccentrics from the archives.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.7.1996
Zusatzinfo	60 colour illustrations, 20 b&w illustrations, 60 line illustrations, index
Verlagsort	Newton Abbot
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Bildbände ► Europa ► Großbritannien
ISBN-10	0-7153-0347-3 / 0715303473
ISBN-13	978-0-7153-0347-4 / 9780715303474
Zustand	Neuware