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The Opening Country - A Walk Through France (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 2 760
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The Opening Country - A Walk Through France (Paperback)
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List price R305
Loot Price R276
Discovery Miles 2 760
You Save R29 (10%)
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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.
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