The gifts of reading / Robert Macfarlane.
Material type: TextPublication details: UK : Penguin Books, 2017.Description: 34 pages ; 15 cmISBN:- 9780241978313 (pbk.) :
- 028.9 23
- Also issued online.
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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General | The Harden Library, King's Hospital | Main | 028.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | R16053n0499 |
Formerly CIP. Uk
Every book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of three minds (the giver, the author, the recipient), an exchange of intellectual and psychological currency, that leaves both participants the richer. Here Robert Macfarlane recounts the story of a book he was given as a young man, and how he managed eventually to return the favour, though never repay the debt.
Also issued online.
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