Tom Fort

Broschiertes Buch

Downstream

Beschreibung

Travelling partly on foot and bicycle, but chiefly in a plywood fifteen foot punt, Fort journeyed through the unsung heart of Middle England, showing him the unseen face of his own country.

Autor

Tom Fort read English at Balliol College, Oxford before going on to work as a reporter on a newspaper and then on to the BBC where he worked for over 20 years. He is married with five children and is the author of four other books. (Under the Weather published by Century and The Grass is Greener, The Far From Compleat Angler and The Book of Eels, published by Harper Collins).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arrow Books / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 594995
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780099505662
• ISBN-10: 0099505665
• Artikelnr.: 25610658

Rezensionen

In Downstream, Fort sets out by punt to explore what he describes, in a characteristically lovely phrase. as 'the concealed dimension' of water. Fort is a quintessentially English guide. A pleasingly unstructured ramble through the history of the Midlands. Observer