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  • The Wisdom of Farmers

    What We Can Learn from the Land

    door John Connell ...
    'There is hard-won wisdom here, and good cheer, and a reminder that the world is much wider, older and more interesting than you'd think' BILL McKIBBEN'Kind, wise and immensely readable' TIM FLANNERYA thoughtful, illuminating rumination on the life lessons we can take from those who work the land and the millennia of wisdom they draw upon when they go about their day, 'making a living by turning ... Meer lezen

    8,79 €

  • The Stream of Everything

    door John Connell ...
    It's summer, and John Connell finds himself, like so many others, confined to his local area, the opportunity to freely travel and socialise cut short. His attention turns to the Camlin river – an ever-present source of life for his hometown's inhabitants and, for John, a site of boyhood adventure, first love, family history and local legend.He decides to canoe its course with a friend, a two-day ... Meer lezen

    17,80 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Running Book

    A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History

    door John Connell ...
    ‘Sensational! John Connell has done it again’ – Dean KarnazesFrom the award-winning, No.1 bestselling author of The Cow BookIn The Running Book, John Connell vividly describes a marathon through County Longford, Ireland, where he lives and farms. Because running is as much about the mind as the body, the book is about more than the physical experience. What John sees on his journey prompts him to ... Meer lezen

    11,76 €

  • Twelve Sheep

    Life lessons from a lambing season

    door John Connell ...
    For John Connell, the lambing season on his County Longford farm begins in the autumn. In the sheep shed, he surveys the dozen females in his care and contemplates the work ahead as the season slowly turns to winter, then spring.The twelve sheep have come into his life at just the right moment. After years of hard work, John felt a deep tiredness creeping up on him, a sadness that he couldn't ... Meer lezen

    8,49 €

  • The Farmer's Son

    Calving Season on a Family Farm

    door John Connell ...
    A poignant memoir—and #1 Irish bestseller—about a wayward son's return home to his family's farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world.Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm.Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the ... Meer lezen

    12,29 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • France in World Politics

    Bewerkt door Robert Aldrich, John Connell ...
    Serie series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1989, this book analyses France’s distinctive role in international affairs and examines the characteristics of French foreign policy in the Fifth Republic. The introduction provides an overview of France’s role in international relations, then specific chapters look at topics such as French military strategy and relations with the superpowers of the late 20th Century; ... Meer lezen

    36,52 €

  • The Cow Book

    A Story of Life on a Family Farm

    door John Connell ...
    Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the ways of the farmer and the way of the cows.Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day - cleaning the outhouses, milking the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. But ... Meer lezen

    20,67 €

  • Rural Revival?

    Place Marketing, Tree Change and Regional Migration in Australia

    How, if possible, to re-populate declining rural and regional areas? Examining this crucial and complex issue in relation to Australia, this book explores how a particular organization, 'Country Week', has emerged and developed as one means of stimulating the repopulation of declining or stagnating areas. While this is a problem shared by many other developed countries in Europe and North America, ... Meer lezen

    66,96 €

  • The Lambing Season

    Stories of Life on an Irish Family Farm

    door John Connell ...
    A hymn to the rituals of farming life from the bestselling Irish author of The Farmer's Son.For John Connell, the lambing season on his County Longford farm begins in the autumn. In the sheep shed, he surveys the dozen females in his care and contemplates the work ahead as the season slowly turns to winter, then spring.The twelve sheep have come into his life at just the right moment. After years ... Meer lezen

    13,41 €

  • Chinese Tourism in Australia

    Koalas, Selfies and Red Dresses

    This book investigates all facets of Chinese tourism in a single destination, and its fascinating rise and evolution. It provides an overview of the first two decades of twenty-first century Chinese tourism in Australia, covering the early days, when Chinese tourism was mainly guided package tours with tourists visiting standard iconic sites, and its evolution into more individualistic tourism, ... Meer lezen

    127,19 €

  • The Ends of Empire

    The Last Colonies Revisited

    Serie series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Ranging from Greenland to Gibraltar, the Falklands to the Faroes, and encompassing islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the Caribbean, these territories ... Meer lezen

    84,79 €

  • COVID in the Islands: A comparative perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific

    Bewerkt door Yonique Campbell, John Connell ...
    Serie series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in two contrasting island regions - the Caribbean and the Pacific - and in several islands and island states. It traces the complexity of effects and responses, at different scales, through the first critical year. Written by a range of scholars and practitioners working in the region the book focuses on six ... Meer lezen

    148,39 €