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A Child`s Delight by Noel Perrin 9781584653523
Booksplease Price: £13.94Any parent dismayed by the rows of Goosebumps books dominating the children's sections of most bookstores, any grandparent concerned about the Nintendo induced glaze over a grandchild's eyes, and any... -
A Reader`s Delight by Noel Perrin 9780874514322
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.55One of America's finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place.Book InformationISBN 9780874514322Author Noel... -
Amateur Sugar Maker by Noel Perrin 9780874515794
Booksplease Price: £13.00Noel Perrin's delightful account of building a sugarhouse and making maple sugar in Vermont first appeared twenty years ago. Like a sturdy New England farmhouse, Perrin has added to it over the years... -
Solo: Life with an Electric Car by Noel Perrin 9780393335194
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £15.02In the spring of 1991, Noel Perrin flew from Vermont to California to pick up his newly outfitted electric car, a former gas-guzzling Ford. It would not be easy, but Perrin planned to drive Solo--as... -
Watermen by Randall S. Peffer
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.23For three hundred years, generations of Tilghman Islanders have lived by harvesting the waters of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. They are watermen, an old English term for commercial fishermen, and their... -
Back in Keith County by John Janovy 9780803275607
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.59'Good biologist though [Janovy] is, he's an even better nature writer, with a special affinity for the mysterious and the mystic' - Noel Perrin. 'John Janovy has produced his best book...He gives us... -
On Becoming a Biologist by John Janovy
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12"We share a common bond with even the most bizarre beetle of the Peruvian rain forest," asserts John Janovy Jr. "A belief in that common bond might, in fact, be the most fundamental characteristic of... -
Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures by Bryan L. Jones
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.88Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures is a collection of humorous essays portraying western Nebraska life and culture of the 1950s. Anecdotes on small-town baseball and the polio... -
Keith County Journal by John Janovy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.42To learn from nature, not about nature, was the imperative that took John Janovy Jr. and his students into the sandhills, marshes, grasslands, canyons, lakes, and streams of Keith County in western... -
The Unfinished Universe by Louise B. Young 9780195080391
Booksplease Price: £22.73Drawing on the evidence and insights of biology, physics, astronomy, and cosmology, this is an original and challenging vision of order and change in the universe. Rejecting the popular view that the... -
Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays by Phillip Lopate 9780803222731
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37"Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live," begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and... -
Europe through the Prism of Japan: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries by Jacques Proust 9780268027612
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70In this engaging and innovative new book, French scholar Jacques Proust analyzes the image Europe presented to Japan, deliberately or otherwise, from the mid-sixteenth century to the end of the... -
The Walls Came Tumbling Down: A journey of bravery, heroism, and unbowed humanity by Henriette Roosenburg
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99In this gripping memoir, originally published in 1957, the Dutch author, codename 'Zip', recounts her extraordinary journey. A young fighter for the resistance during World War II, Zip is captured... -
Godine at 50: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher David R. Godine 9781567926767
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £29.98"The story of a book-making life."-New York Times "The lovely colors, tasteful art and elegant typography are an abiding reminder to a hurried world that some gifts of grace endure. That promise is... -
Reading the Mountains of Home by John Elder 9780674748897
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.82Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont...