Where the Wild Thyme Blew: Growing up with nature in the Fifties and Sixties Tapa blanda - 2016

Peter Marren, 10/07/2016. Hardcover. Used; Very Good. **WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON, UK, 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Pisces Publications, 2016. 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… Leer más

Marlborough: Self Published [Printed by Gomer Press Ltd.], 2016. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. 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..