Nature's Engraver :A Life of Thomas Bewick, from the author of A Year with Gilbert White
Nature's Engraver :A Life of Thomas Bewick, from the author of A Year with Gilbert White
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Published:
6 September, 2007
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** Winner of the National Arts Writers Award **
'Fascinating . . . hugely enjoyable.' Alan Titchmarsh
'As delightful to look at as it is to read.' Sunday Times
'It is hard to imagine a better biographer for this subject than Uglow.' Frances Wilson
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.
'The most perfect historian imaginable' Peter Ackroyd
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571223756 |
| ISBN10 | 0571223753 |
| Number Of Pages | 496 |
| Item Weight | 580 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 195 x 35 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main |
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Author's Bio
Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria and lives in Canterbury. Her books include prize-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize.