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Where the Wild Thyme Blew is the story of a boy growing up in the lost England of sixty years ago. And turning, most reluctantly, into a man. It is also about the circumstances that turn a child into a naturalist and how nature can change your life - if you let it. Beginning in the airbases of postwar England where his father was an officer in the RAF, it moves to colonial Singapore and then to the sordid hell of a boarding school in the Midlands, before ending up at Exeter University in the age of long hair, rock music and free love.Peter Marren is a well-known natural history writer. This memoir of his boyhood and youth is written with his customary humour and wit. Having taken his freedom to roam very much for granted, his subsequent experiences at boarding school turned a happy, fairly ordinary boy into a seething (albeit rather understated) rebel against God, prefects and authority generally. It was anger, as much as a love of nature, which turned young Marren into a lifelong conservationist. Perhaps it was so with you too. "What redeemed me", he concludes, "was nature".
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- EditorePeter Marren
- Data di pubblicazione2016
- ISBN 10 1874357765
- ISBN 13 9781874357766
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- Numero di pagine399
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Where the Wild Thyme Blew: Growing up with Nature in the Fifties and Sixties
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Where the Wild Thyme Blew
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Condizione: New. xiv, 399, b/w photos. . HB. NEW. . This book is the story of a boy growing up in the lost England of sixty years ago. And turning, most reluctantly, into a man. It is also about the circumstances that turn a child into a naturalist and how nature can change your life if you let it. Beginning in the airbases of postwar England where his father was an officer in the RAF, it moves to colonial Singapore and then to the sordid hell of a boarding school in the Midlands, before ending up at Exeter University in the age of long hair, rock music and free love.Peter Marren is a well-known natural history writer. This memoir of his boyhood and youth is written with his customary humour and wit. Having taken his freedom to roam very much for granted, his subsequent experiences at boarding school turned a happy, fairly ordinary boy into a seething (albeit rather understated) rebel against God, prefects and authority generally. It was anger, as much as a love of nature, which turned young Marren into a lifelong conservationist. Perhaps it was so with you too. 'What redeemed me', he concludes, 'was nature'.This sorry record of failure, defiance and teenage tantrums will almost certainly remind you of your own childhood, be it ever so long ago. [9781874357766]. Codice articolo N30707
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Where the wild thyme blew: growing up with nature in the fifties and sixties.
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Newbury: NatureBureau, 2016., 2016
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Octavo,400 pp.,photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Naturalist Peter Marren presents a revealing memoir of his boyhood, boarding school and university years in this book, set in Germany, Singapore, the Midlands and Exeter. This tale of the trials and awkward initiations of growing up, and the redemptive power of nature, also delivers an evocative peek into a 'lost' England where children were free to roam the landscape. Codice articolo 39317
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Where the Wild Thyme Blew: Growing up with Nature in the Fifties and Sixties
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Peter Marren, Newbury, 2016
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WHERE THE WILD THYME BLEW [Association copy presented to Michael Proctor by the author. Signed and inscribed to the book]
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Inscribed to fellow author Michael Proctor, included is a letter to Michael from Peter Marren with his thanks. Also included a postcard with a quote and comment by Peter Marren. Signed to the title page. 399 pages, numerous black and white photographic illustrations. Dust jacket fine. Cloth hardback binding, fine. Contents clean and tight, signed and inscribed by the author. A fine tight copy in a fine jacket. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author(s). Book. Codice articolo 037080
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