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Man And The Natural World : Changing Attitudes In England, 1500-1800
by Keith Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0713912278
- ISBN 13
- 9780713912272
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Viking, 1983. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition. 23 x 15 x 2.5 cm. Library stickers on front cover and spine, and ink stamps to endpapers, including withdrawn stamp. No dust jacket. Clean pages, free from notes or highlighting. Binding is tight, spine fully intact. In good order overall. Publisher's note: An encyclopaedic study of man's relationship to animals and plants. It explains everything - why we eat, what we do, why we plant this and not that, why we keep pets, why we like some animals and not others, why we kill the things we kill and love the things we love. ; 'Man and the Natural World, an encyclopaedic study of man's relationship to animals and plants, is completely engrossing ... It explains everything - why we eat what we do, why we plant this and not that, why we keep pets, why we like some animals and not others, why we kill the things we kill and love the things we love ... It is often a funny book and one to read again and again' Paul Theroux, Sunday Times 'The English historian Keith Thomas has revealed modes of thought and ways of life deeply strange to us' Hilary Mantel, New York Review of Books'A treasury of unusual historical anecdote ... a delight to read and a pleasure to own' Auberon Waugh, Sunday Telegraph 'A dense and rich work ... the return to the grass roots of our own environmental convictions is made by the most enchantingly minor paths' Ronald Blythe, Guardian Size: 23 x 15 x 2.5 cm. 425 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Nature--Effect of human beings on; England; Human ecology; Landscape assessment; Geographical perception; Great Britain; Civilization; Public opinion; ISBN: 0713912278. ISBN/EAN: 9780713912272. Add. Inventory No: 220408TRW009074. . 9780713912272
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- Bookseller
- Barnaby
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 220408TRW009074
- Title
- Man And The Natural World : Changing Attitudes In England, 1500-1800
- Author
- Keith Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0713912278
- ISBN 13
- 9780713912272
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 23 x 15 x 2.5 cm
- Keywords
- BZDB428 History; Nature--Effect of human beings on; England; Human ecology; Landscape assessment; Geographical perception; Great Britain; Civilization; Public opinion; ISBN: 0713912278 EAN: 9780713912272 Keith Thomas Man And The Natural World : Changing
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- Reprint
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