Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape
accessible and non-trite treatment of the irish landscape: This book explains the Ireland that you are likely to see when you go there. It is a welcome change from the countless "magical/tragical/literary ireland", photography books that are [... more]
CDN$56.95
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Soul Of Vermont
Richard W. Brown Gives Us the Treasure Of New England!: I first remember seeing one of Richard Brown's spectacular photographs on he cover of Country Journal, a magazine devoted to celebrating rural life styles that ran a span of several years in the [... more]
CDN$57.99
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The View From Castle Rock
Amazon.ca: The latest from the accomplished and much lauded Alice Munro is a family and personal memoir presented as short stories. Munro begins in rural Scotland searching out her family roots and then moves ever closer to the present time. She covers [... more]
CDN$34.99
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Faceless Killers
From Amazon.com: If you remember with pleasure those dark and gloomy Martin Beck mysteries by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, you'll be glad to plunge into the first of Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallender mysteries to appear in English. Wallender's personal [... more]
CDN$20.00
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B. Krigstein: Volume One: 1919-1955
absolutely essential for comic fans and artists of all types: the world was not ready for the work of bernie krigstein when he hit his stride in comics in the early 50's. a fine artist at heart, he became obsessed with the art form of comics and the [... more]
CDN$54.95
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Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings
Excellent as a reference work or as a handy field guide.: The following is an excerpt from a review in Vernacular Architecture Newsletter, Feb. 1999. The outbuildings of rural dwellings have customarily received less attention than the dwellings [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Discovering the Vernacular Landscape
Meditations upon the meaning of 'landscape': I was attracted by the title of this book; there's so much to be learned by observing the suburban or rural landscape, which most of us drive through without really noticing or reflecting upon it. Someday a [... more]
CDN$18.75
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Heart Songs and Other Stories
To be read when you find it difficult to describe something: I read the Shipping news first. Struck by the wonderful use of language, in awe of the structure of this descriptive writing at its very best, I was not disappointed by these short stories [... more]
CDN$17.95
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European Rural Landscapes: Persistence and Change in a ...
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 333.76094 EAN: 9781402020674 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1402020678 Number Of Pages: 496 Publication Date: 2004-05-31 [... more]
CDN$209.96
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Satoyama: The Traditional Rural Landscape of Japan
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 333.75160952 EAN: 9784431000075 Edition: 1st ed. 2002. Corr. 2nd printing ISBN: 4431000070 Number Of Pages: 229 Publication Date: 2008-07-17 [... more]
CDN$181.53
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Wieland Or The Transformation
The first solid American novel: Charles Brockden Brown has been almost completely forgotten today. Unlike the more famous James Fenimore Cooper, who is often accorded the title of the first American novelist that Brown should bear, Brown's reputation is [... more]
CDN$17.00
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Faceless Killers
From Amazon.com: If you remember with pleasure those dark and gloomy Martin Beck mysteries by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, you'll be glad to plunge into the first of Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallender mysteries to appear in English. Wallender's personal [... more]
CDN$35.07
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