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Tom Fort

    Il lavoro di Tom Fort approfondisce la storia sociale dell'erba e della sua coltivazione. La sua scrittura esplora il mondo affascinante, spesso trascurato, dei prati e l'ossessione dell'umanità per essi. Attraverso una ricerca dettagliata, scopre come la cura del prato sia diventata un fenomeno culturale con profonde radici sociali. La sua prosa è coinvolgente e acuta, invitando i lettori a vedere i paesaggi che li circondano con occhi nuovi.

    Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets
    The Village News
    The Far From Compleat Angler
    Against the flow : wading through Eastern Europe
    Casting Shadows
    Against the Flow
    • Against the Flow

      • 320pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Many years ago, Tom Fort drove his little red car onto the ferry at Felixstowe, bound for all points east. Eastern Europe was still a faraway place, just emerging from its half-century of waking nightmare, blinking, injured, full of fears but importantly full of hope too. Things were different then.

      Against the Flow
    • A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Peer into the secret, silent world of the freshwater fish and explore evolution of the art and industry of fishing in Britain's rivers and streams.

      Casting Shadows
    • You have to be on your guard when you go back to special places. You may be able to locate them easily enough on the map, but maps tell only one story. Times change and places and people with them. The memory plays curious tricks, and things aren t al

      Against the flow : wading through Eastern Europe
    • The Far From Compleat Angler

      • 226pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      Tom Fort, a former angling correspondent for the Financial Times, brings his sharp wit and keen insights to the world of fishing. Renowned as one of Britain's most entertaining fishing writers, his work combines humor with a deep understanding of the sport, offering readers both engaging narratives and thoughtful reflections on the angling experience.

      The Far From Compleat Angler
    • The Village News is a whimsical, funny and informative travelogue by pedal power of a variety of villages across our nation that encapsulate, or showcase, all the best elements of what could be seen as the English village.

      The Village News
    • Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets is The Repair Shop meets The Diary of a Bookseller all conveyed in Tom Fort's signature easy-going writing style.

      Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets