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The Baron
(Paperback)
Allen Plone
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R418
R387
Discovery Miles 3 870
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Escape the rat race by heading to the Yorkshire Moors in Jane
Lovering's funny, warm and magical new novel. Perfect for fans of
Our Yorkshire Farm!Needing an escape, Dora swapped city living for
life as a shepherdess on her grandad's Yorkshire farm. More than a
decade later Dora is still there, now farming the fifty acres and
caring for the one hundred rare sheep by herself. She never hears
the call of the city, but instead relishes the peace and simplicity
of life on the Moors. When Dora's glamorous but quarrelsome sister
Cass, her teenage nephew Thor and his handsome tutor Nat, turn up
for an unexpected and unreasonably long stay, life on the farm is
thrown into chaos. Cass brings with her unwelcome memories from the
past, and of someone who once stole Dora's heart. Dora takes refuge
in the comforting routine of the farm, the sheep never allowing her
too much time to dwell. But, as the seasons change, the snow starts
to melt, and as lambs begin to fill the fields, Dora can't keep
hiding in the hills. Because even though she's trying, Dora can't
run away from a love that never really let her go... Let Jane
Lovering whisk you away to the beauty and serenity of the Yorkshire
Moors, far away from the noise of the city. Just right for fans of
Emma Burstall, Holly Martin and Kate Forster. Please note that HOME
ON A YORKSHIRE FARM was previously published as HOME ON FOLLY FARM.
Praise for Jane Lovering: 'A funny, warm-hearted read, filled with
characters you'll love.' Matt Dunn on A Country Escape What readers
are saying about Jane Lovering: 'Jane Lovering has that ability to
choose exactly the right words and images to make you laugh, with a
wonderful touch of the ridiculous, then moving seamlessly to a
scene of such poignancy that it catches your breath.' 'It is very
difficult to explain just how wonderful this book is. The power of
her words and her descriptive prowess to put it bluntly is
amazing... the emotional impact it has had on me will be long
lasting.' 'Fall in love with reading all over again with this
cracking tale from Jane Lovering. An excellent reminder, if one is
needed, of the absolute pleasure of losing yourself in a good
book.'
In this landmark work of animal rights activism, Carol J. Adams -
the bestselling author of The Sexual Politics of Meat - explores
the intersections and common causes of feminism and the defense of
animals. Neither Man Nor Beast explores the common link between
cultural attitudes to women and animals in modern Western culture
that have enabled the systematic exploitation of both. A vivid work
that takes in environmental ethics, theological perspectives and
feminist theory, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new
foreword by the author and new images illustrating the continuing
relevance of the book today.
Based on years of investigative reporting, Wyatt Williams offers a
powerful look at why we kill animals and why we eat meat. In order
to understand why we eat meat, restaurant critic and journalist
Wyatt Williams narrates his time spent investigating factory farms,
learning to hunt game, working on a slaughterhouse kill floor, and
partaking in Indigenous traditions of whale eating in Alaska, while
charting the history of meat eating and vegetarianism. Williams
shows how mysteries springing up from everyday experiences can lead
us into the big questions of life while examining the
irreconcilable differences between humans and animals. Springer
Mountain is a thought-provoking work, one that reveals how what we
eat tells us who we are.
How did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of
countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of
intense human-animal interactions: from love to cultural
identifications, moral reflections, philosophical debates,
classification systems, mechanical copies, insults and literary
creativity. Dogs, cats and horses, of course, play central roles.
But this volume also features human reflections upon parrots,
songbirds, monkeys, a rhino, an elephant, pigs, and geese - all the
way through to the admired silkworms and the not-so-admired
bookworms. An exceptionally wide array of source materials are used
in this volume's ten separate contributions, plus the editorial
introduction, to demonstrate this diversity. As eighteenth-century
humans came to realise that they too are animals, they had to
recast their relationships with their fellow living-beings on
Planet Earth. And these considerations remain very much live ones
to this day.
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