Natures Engraver - Rilegato

Uglow, Jenny

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0571223745 ISBN 13: 9780571223749

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2006

Riassunto

At the end of the 18th-century Britain fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds marked the moment, the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. But it was far more than that, for in the vivid vignettes scattered through the book Bewick drew the life of the country people of the North East - a world already vanishing under the threat of enclosures.

In this superbly illustrated short life, Jenny Uglow tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who never courted fame yet influenced book illustration for a century to come. It is a story of violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life and the beauty of the wild - a journey into a past whose energy and power still haunt us today, and the beginning of our lasting obsession with the natural world.

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Descrizione del libro:

A beautifully illustrated biography of the man whose wildlife illustrations shaped the way we view the natural world.

L'autore:

Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria, and now works in publishing. Her books include prize-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. The Lunar Men, published in 2002, was described in the Observer as 'a spectacular, epic book ... Never has the eighteenth century come so much to life,' while her most recent book, A Little History of British Gardening, was called 'a delight from beginning to end' in the Observer. She lives in Canterbury.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0571223745
• ISBN 13: 9780571223749
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 480