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“sally berridge”

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  • Tissue

    by Sally Berridge ...
    Tissue is both an autobiography and a comment on the autobiographical process. The first part describes a life lived in four countries: British India, the British colony of Kenya, England and Australia, and the consequences of the end of colonialism for a child that was inadvertently part of it. It also describes a return to Kenya in 2003 to find a lost farm, and a lifelong search for a lost ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Epic Voyages of Maud Berridge

    The seafaring diaries of a Victorian lady

    by Sally Berridge ...
    Maud Berridge (1845–1907) was the wife of a Master Mariner, and she travelled with him on at least five occasions (1869, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1886), sailing to Melbourne with emigrants and cargo. The first occasion was 1869 just after they were married, when Henry was Captain of the Walmer Castle, and they returned via New Zealand instead of travelling east and around Cape Horn.However, most of Henry ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEFrom the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly' Independent'Enormously pleasurable, deeply moving. A bid to save our rich hoard of landscape language, and... ... Read more

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  • An Appetite for Wonder

    The Making of a Scientist

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    New York Times bestselling author and renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins delivers an intimate look into his own childhood and intellectual development, illuminating his path to becoming one of the foremost thinkers in modern science today"A memoir that is funny and modest, absorbing and playful. Dawkins has written a marvelous love letter to science . . . and for this, ... Read more

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  • Curious English Words and Phrases

    The Truth Behind the Expressions We Use

    by Max Cryer ...
    Have you ever wondered where terms like ‘end of your tether’, ‘gets my goat’ or ‘letting ones hair down’ come from? Or why we call some people ‘geezers’, ‘sugar daddies’ or ‘lounge lizards’? Or where the words ‘eavesdropping’, ‘nickname’ and ‘D-Day’ come from? They are just a few of the many words and phrases that language expert Max Cryer examines in this fact-filled and fun new book. Max ... Read more

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  • Reading by Moonlight

    How Books Saved a Life

    by Brenda Walker ...
    When Miles Franklin-shortlisted novelist Brenda walker became sick she turned to two healers: doctors and books.This is the story of how she recovered.Packing her bag for hospital after being diagnosed with breast cancer, Brenda wondered which book to put in. As a novelist and professor of literature, her life was built around reading and writing. Books had always been her solace and sustenance, ... Read more

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  • Nature Cure

    by Richard Mabey ...
    'Britain's greatest living nature writer' The TimesRediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard MabeyIn the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. The natural world – which since childhood had been a source of joy and inspiration for him – became ... Read more

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  • Silt

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    In Silt, bestselling travel writer Robert Macfarlane walks the Broomway, the deadliest path in Britain.In one of the most striking chapters of his brilliant 2012 book The Old Ways, Robert Macfarlane walks the Essex offshore path which has claimed the lives of more than sixty people over the centuries. His companion on this atmospheric and potentially perilous journey is his old friend and ... Read more

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  • At the Pond

    Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond

    by Jessica J. Lee, Amy Key, So Mayer, Sophie Mackintosh, Ava Wong Davies, Nina Mingya Powles, Deborah Moggach, Sharlene Teo, Leanne Shapton, Esther Freud, Margaret Drabble, Eli Goldstone, Nell Frizzell ...
    Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies' Bathing Pond.Floating in the Pond's silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it's easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers from eight to eighty-plus can be found waiting to take a dip before sunbathing in the adjoining ... Read more

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  • Writing Your Life

    by Patti Miller ...
    Drawing on Patti Miller's ten-year 'Writing your Life' experience, this new expanded and revised edition includes a wonderful collection of life stories. Everyone can write a life story. If you have dreamed by childhood creeks, had coffee with a friend, watched the sun rise after a partner has died, or lived through any of life's twists and turns, then you have a life story to write. Writing Your ... Read more

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  • Flight of the Diamond Smugglers

    A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa

    by Matthew Gavin Frank ...
    “Unforgettable. . . . An outstanding adventure in its lyrical, utterly compelling, and heartbreaking investigations of the world of diamond smuggling.” —Aimee NezhukumatathilFor nearly eighty years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed “overmined” and abandoned, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous ... Read more

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