Field Work
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
What does it take to make a living from the land in modern Britain?
Bella Bathurst Libri
Bella Bathurst è una scrittrice e fotografa celebrata per le sue opere letterarie distintive. La sua scrittura spesso approfondisce gli aspetti insoliti della storia e dell'esperienza umana, rivelando una profonda fascinazione per i temi legati alla Scozia e al suo patrimonio unico. Bathurst combina abilmente una ricerca meticolosa con una narrazione avvincente, offrendo ai lettori nuove prospettive sia su storie familiari che meno conosciute.
Sound
- 256pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next twelve years deafness shaped her life, until, in 2009, everything changed again. 'Sound' draws on this extraordinary experience, exploring what it is like to lose your hearing and - as Bella eventually did - to get it back, and what that teaches you about listening and silence, music and noise.
The Lighthouse Stevensons
The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson
- 284pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
Robert Louis Stevenson was the most famous of the Stevensons, but not by any means the most productive. The Lighthouse Stevensons built every lighthouse round Scotland, were responsible for a slew of inventions in both construction and optics, and achieved feats of engineering in conditions that would be forbidding even today. The same driven energy which Robert Louis Stevenson puts into writing, his ancestors put into lighting the darkness of the seas. This text tells their tale.
You can keep the internet. You can keep the computer and the mobile phone. In the bicycle humanity has its most perfect invention of the last three hundred years and in Bella Bathurst the bike has found the best and brightest booster so far. BORIS JOHNSON
Special
- 320pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
A group of teenaged schoolgirls are on a field trip to the Forest of Dean, where the the reader bears witness to the development and disintegration of relationships. Nothing is quite what you expect. Soon enough, something dark and sinister begins to move underneath the surface.
Balla Bathurst beschreibt die Entstehung der schottischen Leuchttürme im 18./19. Jahrhundert und die Gefahren der Seefahrt. Sie erzählt auch von der Ingenieursfamilie Stevenson, die den Leuchtturm-Bau prägte, und verbindet Technik- und Seefahrtgeschichte mit einer Familiensaga.
