Winter: A Book for the Season
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (878 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1445664747 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Feel the cold force of winter and appreciate its beauty through this collection of the best writing on the winter season, featuring classic and contemporary fiction; nonfiction in the form of diaries, history, and journals; recipes for cold days; and historic illustrations showing different sides of winter. Some of the pieces will be wonderfully familiar, some will surprise and delight—share a Prohibition Christmas cocktail with Damon Runyon's Dancing Dan, and load the sledges with "Banjo" Paterson in Australia!. This is a wonderfully readable anthology specially selected to warm when "the north wind doth blow, and we shall have snow." With descriptions of the medieval winters from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and Malory through to the Thames frost-fairs of the 17th century; from the Scandinavian tundra to the deceptively simple genius of Jack London, winter here is show in all its human significance
About the AuthorFelicity Trotman is a former fiction editor at Puffin and at Macmillan Children’s Books.
Felicity Trotman is a former fiction editor at Puffin and at Macmillan Children’s Books.