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Casting Shadows - Fish and Fishing in Britain by Tom Fort
Category: Sports and Hobbies
Peer into the secret, silent world of the freshwater fish and explore evolution of the art and industry of fishing in Britain's rivers and streams. From cunning Neolithic traps, intricate Roman nets and quarrellous Victorian societies to the evolution of angling and eventual gentrification of river acc ...Show more
Downstream by Tom Fort
Category: Travel
"Downstream" is a celebration of rivers: an exploration of what they mean to us and an account of what we owe to them. Tom Fort followed the course of our third largest, and one of our least known rivers from source to the sea - the River Trent. Travelling partly on foot and bicycle, but chiefly in a pl ...Show more
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets - Life in the Village Hardware Shop by Tom Fort
Category: Home Interiors
Tom Fort made his name as a writer with his bestselling travel narrative The A303: Highway to the Sun. He now focuses on matters closer to home by celebrating a quintessential cornerstone of any village in Britain - the shop - in this case a century-old hardware shop daughter-in-law bought eighteen mont ...Show more
The Book of Eels: Their Lives, Secrets and Myths by Tom Fort
Category: Animals & Nature
Beginning life in the Sargasso Sea, the eel travels across the ocean, lives for twenty or so years, and then is driven by some instinct back across the ocean to spawn and die. And the next generation starts the story again. No one knows why the eels return, or how the orphaned elvers learn their way bac ...Show more
The Village News - The Truth Behind England's Rural Idyll by Tom Fort
Category: Travel
'An entertaining book, written with Fort's characteristic conversational style... A real pleasure to read' - BBC Countryfile 'Charming...Mr Fort doesn't only focus on the visually delightful in village life, he tells it as it is - without any firm conclusion, possibly, but with cordiality and wit.' - ...Show more
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