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Nature's Engraver - A Life of Thomas Bewick (Paperback, Main)
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Nature's Engraver - A Life of Thomas Bewick (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R475
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Thomas Bewick wrote A History of British Birds at the end of the
eighteenth century, just as Britain fell in love with nature. This
was one of the wildlife books that marked the moment, the first
'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of
astonishing accuracy and beauty. But it was far more than that, for
in the vivid vignettes scattered through the book Bewick drew the
life of the country people of the North East - a world already
vanishing under the threat of enclosures. In Nature's Engraver: The
life of Thomas Bewick, Jenny Uglow tells the story of the farmer's
son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood-engraving and influenced
book illustration for a century to come. It is a story of violent
change, radical politics, lost ways of life and the beauty of the
wild - a journey to the beginning of our lasting obsession with the
natural world. Nature's Engraver won the National Arts Writers
Award in 2007. Jenny Uglow is the author of, among others, A
Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration, which was shortlisted
for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize, Lunar Men and In These Times.
'The most perfect historian imaginable' Peter Ackroyd
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