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The gifts of reading / Robert Macfarlane.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK : Penguin Books, 2017.Description: 34 pages ; 15 cmISBN:
  • 9780241978313 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 028.9 23
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Summary: 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.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 028.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R16053n0499

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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.

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