Opening Country (eBook)

A Walk Through France

John Micklewright (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
200 Seiten
Troubador Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80046-920-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In this journey of discovery, John Micklewright travels the slow way, on foot, on paths, tracks and byways from the Channel to the Alps - from the coast of Normandy to the flanks of Mont Blanc. The Opening Country is a beautifully written account of his progress through the French countryside, an evocative patchwork of landscape, nature, history, literature, film, and drawing on his father s diaries that stretch back to the 1930s of memoir. Always curious, absorbing all around him, ready on a whim to divert from his chosen route as he heads unhurriedly southwards. The natural world unfolds as spring turns to summer with surprises of bird song and butterflies, against a constant background of reminders of the economic and social story of rural France and of wars past. The result is an engrossing record of a classic long-distance walk through Britain s nearest continental neighbour. The Opening Country is a book to fire the imagination a call to travel slowly, to open eyes and ears, to discover and explore.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.3.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• ISBN-10: 1-80046-920-9 / 1800469209
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80046-920-4 / 9781800469204