As well as founding the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Peter Scott was an accomplished ornithologist, sportsman, broadcaster and painter. Published in partnership with the WWT, this book charts the remarkable life of one of Britain’s greatest conservationists.
Edmund Dulac Biography: Dulac was born in Toulouse, France, on 22nd October, 1882. He was a French born, British naturalised magazine illustrator, book...
The talents and achievements of incredible wildlife artist, David Shepherd, including his foibles, eccentricities and larger-than-life character, are beautifully captured in this biography written by his son-in-law, JC Jeremy Hobson.
Mike Tucker was born into a life of farming and horses. His passion and hard work enabled him to progress from international groom to successful international event rider, top level Eventing official and television commentator.
The Enigma of Kidson is a moving, thought-provoking, inspiring and hilarious biography of an inspirational and controversial teacher. The updated paperback includes new memories from former pupils and friends along with news of what happened to Kidson’s mother.
Described by the actress, Joanna Lumley, as "the man with no fear", Tristan spent his whole life living up to the legend. This book tells the story of a life lived on the edge of the Great Rift Valley – and one cut tragically short on his own beloved Kenyan nature reserve in March 2017 when he was shot and killed by armed herders invading the land.
Originally published in 1937, this book contains a selection of Chinese lyric poetry translated into English by Ch'u Ta-Kao. The selections are largely taken from the medieval period. A preface by the renowned British anthologist, writer and literary critic Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in poetry and Chinese literature.
New paperback edition - Unique insight into the eccentricities, controversies and goings-on in the world's most prestigious hunts, including the author's two years as Master of the Quorn.
Arthur Quiller Couch Biography: Quiller-Couch grew up with literature and folklore from a young age. His younger sisters, Florence and Lilian, were...
When the music impresario Bryan Morrison died aged 66 in 2008, after two years in a coma following a polo accident, he left behind his unpublished memoir. As a music...
Peter Scott was a remarkable man who led an extraordinary life. Writer, artist, broadcaster, conservationist, sportsman; in any one of his chosen fields he would have been remembered as someone who made a difference. That he excelled in all of these is perhaps the main reason why his life remains an inspiration to others more than thirty years after his death. To his chosen fields, Peter brought a restless energy, boundless enthusiasm, integrity and determination to succeed. This new biography charts his life, from the young boy who grew up in the shadow of the tragic death of his famous father to the co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund and a major international figure in wildlife conservation. Along the way he became a passionate wildfowler, an internationally renowned artist, Olympic medal winner, wartime hero, British national glider champion and popular broadcaster who was heavily involved in the development of natural history programmes at the BBC. The book draws in part upon previously unpublished letters and papers discovered in his home during preparations to open it to the public, and casts a new light on some of the events that helped change a passionate hunter of wild geese into the most fervent champion for their survival. With the current crisis of global warming and the threat of mass extinction of wildlife across the globe, Peter's story is a vivid reminder of the challenges we face and of what we stand to lose. 16 Plates, color
'Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s' focuses on an author characterised by geographical and aesthetic mobility, and on those who worked with him or wrote for him at a period of key changes in transatlantic publishing. Stevenson's situation in the 1890s, living in Samoa, publishing in Britain and the United States, is both highly specific but also representative of a new literary mobility. Drawing on a range of resources, from archival material, correspondence, biographies, essays and fiction, the book examines the operations of transatlantic literary networks during a period of key changes in transatlantic publishing. To investigate Stevenson and the geographies of his literary networks during the last years of his life and after his death, the book presents a series of critical case studies profiling figures who worked with Stevenson, negotiated his publications on both sides of the Atlantic, wrote for him or were inspired by him. Each chapter focuses on a figure involved in the production or afterlife of Stevenson's late fiction. Individuals studied include Stevenson's boyhood friend and literary negotiator, Charles Baxter; American publisher Scribner's literary representative in London, Lemuel Bangs; Stevenson's 'mentor', Sidney Colvin; Stevenson's admirer and posthumous co-author, literary critic Arthur Quiller-Couch; and collaborators among Stevenson's own family. Through its emphasis on these significant and fascinating figures, instrumental to or imbricated in the dissemination of Stevenson's writing, the book offers a fresh understanding of his work in the context of transatlantic publishing. The book deploys the concept of 'literary prosthetics' to frame its analysis of gatekeepers, tastemakers, agents, collaborators and authorial surrogates in the transatlantic production of Stevenson's writing. The complexities of Stevenson's geographical and literary situation demonstrate the ways in which the permeable bodies of 'author', 'critic', 'editor', 'publisher' and 'agent' were fixed and refixed during the period. The book contributes to knowledge of transatlantic publishing and literary cultures in the 1890s and to Stevenson studies but its focus on the specifics of Stevenson's 'case' provides a point of entry into larger considerations of literary communities, nineteenth-century mobility drivers of literary production and the nature of the authorial function.
