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The Shell Country Alphabet: The Classic Guide to the British Countryside

The Shell Country Alphabet: The Classic Guide to the British Countryside

by Geoffrey Grigson (Author), Geoffrey Grigson (Author), Sophie Grigson (Introduction)

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    Hardcover 2009

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Synopsis

In the 1960s, Geoffrey Grigson travelled around England writing the story of the secret landscape that is all around us, if only we take the time to look and see. The result is a book that will take you on an imaginative journey, revealing hidden stories, unexpected places and strange phenomena. From green men, ice-scratches, cross-legged knights and weathercocks to rainbows, clouds and stars; from place-names and poets to mazes, dene-holes and sham ruins, via avenues, dewponds and village greens, The Shell Country Alphabet will help you discover the world that remains, just off the motorway. 'Geoffrey Grigson resurrected the minor, the provincial and the parochial ...[he was] an erudite and unrivalled topographer ...ardent in promoting informed awareness of the distinctiveness of place' - Toby Barnard. 'An anthologist of genius' - P.J. Kavanagh.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 464
 Edition: UK ed.
 Publisher: Particular Books
Published: 02 Jul 2009
ISBN 10: 1846142121
ISBN 13: 9781846142123

Author Bio
Geoffrey Grigson, poet and writer, was born in Cornwall in 1905. He first came to prominence in the 1930s as a poet, then as editor from 1933 of New Verse. Later in life he was a noted critic, reviewer, and compiler of acclaimed anthologies. He published 13 books of poetry, and wrote on a wide variety of subjects including art, travel, the English countryside, and botany. He died in 1985. Sophie Grigson is the daughter of Jane and Geoffrey Grigson and an acclaimed cookery writer and presenter. She received the Guild of Food Writers' Cookery Journalist Award in 2001 and is the author of over 16 cookery books.