Christopher Stocks, Angie Lewin

The Book of Pebbles

From Prehistory to the Pet Shop Boys

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The perfect seaside and armchair companion to the pebbles of the British Isles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 149mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9780500023754
• ISBN-10: 0500023751
• Artikelnr.: 58951547

Autorenporträt

Christopher Stocks is an author, journalist and trainee bell-ringer. His first book, Forgotten Fruits, a social history of British fruit and vegetables, became an unlikely success, with Monty Don choosing it as his favourite book of the year.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Angie Lewin
1. On Chesil Beach
2. Sir Mortimer at War
3. Picassös Pebbles
4. Jim Ede and the Louvre of the Pebble
5. Basically Derek
6. Eminent Victorians
7. At the Natural History Museum
8. No Stone Unturned
9. Some Pebbles
10. Some Beaches
Afterword