Hidden nature /
by Fowler, Alys [author.].
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BookPublisher: Rearsby : Clipper Large Print Books, 2017Description: 412 pages (large print).ISBN: 9781510080829 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 914.2490 FOWSubject(s): Fowler, Alys -- Travel -- England -- West Midlands | Canals -- England -- West Midlands | Natural history -- England -- West Midlands | Large type books | West Midlands (England) -- Description and travelSummary: Leaving her garden to the mercy of the slugs, award-winning writer Alys Fowler set out in an inflatable kayak to explore Birmingham's canal network, full of little-used waterways where huge pike skulk and kingfishers dart. Her book is about noticing the wild everywhere and what it means to see beauty where you least expect it. What happens when someone who has learned to observe her external world in such detail decides to examine her internal world with the same care? Beautifully written, honest and very moving, 'Hidden Nature' is also the story of Alys Fowler's emotional journey: above all, this book is about losing and finding, exploring familiar places and discovering unknown horizons.
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| Large Print - Adult | Formby Library | Large Print Adult Non-Fiction | 914.2490 FOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002994284X |
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| 909 FRA The new Silk roads : the present and future of the world / | 914.1048 MAC Hope & glory: the days that made Britain | 914.1104 CON Made in Scotland : my grand adventures in a wee country / | 914.2490 FOW Hidden nature / | 914.9504 FIE A thing of beauty / | 920 CUM Baggage / | 920 DYS Invention : a life / |
Standard print edition originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton.
Leaving her garden to the mercy of the slugs, award-winning writer Alys Fowler set out in an inflatable kayak to explore Birmingham's canal network, full of little-used waterways where huge pike skulk and kingfishers dart. Her book is about noticing the wild everywhere and what it means to see beauty where you least expect it. What happens when someone who has learned to observe her external world in such detail decides to examine her internal world with the same care? Beautifully written, honest and very moving, 'Hidden Nature' is also the story of Alys Fowler's emotional journey: above all, this book is about losing and finding, exploring familiar places and discovering unknown horizons.
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