Author: Derek TangyePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Author: TangyeA Gull on the Roof
Author: Derek TangyePublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1472110234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The first title in the Minack Chronicles, which tell the story of how Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind their London home to establish a flower farm on the coast of Cornwall. From inauspicious beginnings, this book includes tales of the couple's first animals, including Monty the ginger cat, and takes us through trials and tribulations until the arrival of a gull on the roof provides the first augury of better times to come.
A Gull on the Roof
Author: Derek TangyePublisher: Constable
ISBN: 9781472109903
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The first title in the Minack Chronicles, which tell the story of how Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind their London home to establish a flower farm on the coast of Cornwall. From inauspicious beginnings, this book includes tales of the couple's first animals, including Monty the ginger cat, and takes us through trials and tribulations until the arrival of a gull on the roof provides the first augury of better times to come.
Author: Derek TangyeThe Story of the Minack Chronicles
Author: Derek TangyePublisher: Time Warner Books Uk
ISBN: 9780751510881
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
This volume contains three books that tell of the author's experiences travelling around countries such as America and Russia, as the world was about to be transformed by war, and of life in a Cornish cottage and flower farm. A Cat in the Window is a tribute to the author's famous pet.
Stairs to the Roof
Author: Tennessee WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214353
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A play produced only twice in the 1940s and now published for the first time reveals that Tennessee Williams anticipated the themes of Star Trek by decades.
The Evening Gull
Author: TangyePublisher: Little Brown Uk
ISBN: 9780751504910
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Together with his wife, Derek Tangye created a refuge at Minack, a cottage surrounded by 20 ruggedly beautiful acres on a Cornish cliff. This is the 17th book in his series about their experiences. It is both a celebration of the beauties of Cornwall and a tribute to his wife, who died in 1986. Since her death, the author has lived at Minack alone, welcoming visitors eager to see for themselves the haven described in The Minack Chronicles. It was Jeannie Tangye's wish to preserve Minack for future generations to enjoy, and in this book her husband describes his efforts to fulfill that wish, while struggling to cope with bereavement and loneliness.
Two Gulls and a Girl
Author: Roxanne SchinasPublisher: Imperator Publishing
ISBN: 0956072208
Category : Gulls
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Roxanne Schinas has always had a passion for wildlife. Long before she was old enough to read of Gerald Durrell's adventures she was emulating them, with pets ranging from rabbits and half-tame hedgehogs to toads, sticklebacks, locusts, and a crayfish. In the spring of 2008, while her family were cruising in southern Spain, Roxanne decided to make a survey of the seagull colony on an uninhabited island. The project began with a hand-drawn map on which the nests were plotted. Phase two was to have consisted in the study of the young birds growing up on the island, but when a local nature warden told her that most of the chicks would die, Roxanne found that she had a perfect excuse for "rescuing" two and bringing them home. Mother was not impressed... but the deed was done, and now the young naturalist had the opportunity to study, intimately, the development of Larus Cachinanns, the yellow-legged gull. Two Gulls and a Girl is Roxanne's record of events in the seagull colony and amongst her two hand-reared birds. Contains 92 black-and-white photos and illustrations. Foreword by Richard Williamson.
Author: Derek Tangye