Best of Bb

by BB; Watkins-Pitchford, Denys

• ISBN13: 9781906122126
• ISBN10: 1906122121
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: Scb Distributors

Summary

"The best of BB brings together in one volume some of the best writing and illustration by Denys Watkins-Pitchford - better known as BB. This edition has a larger typeface and improved layout from the original which was published to celebrate BB's eightieth birthday in 1985.This beautiful anthology contains extracts from all his books for adults, and few short extracts from this timeless children's books as well.From stories of wild-fowling in the far north of Scotland to night fishing for carp in dark Midland pools, from his famous books about the white goose, Manka the Sky Gipsy, to the Little Grey Men (winner of the Carnegie Medal) there is something here for everyone who loves the British countryside and its wildlife."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. ix
A Child Alone	p. 6
A Child Alone	p. 6
The Sportsman's Bedside Book	p. 12
Wild lone	p. 17
The countryman's bedside book	p. 27
The little grey men	p. 32
Down the bright stream	p. 51
Brendon chase	p. 67
A fishing man
The fisherman's bedside book	p. 76
Summer road to wales	p. 81
Letters from compton deverell	p. 87
The wayfaring tree	p. 93
Confessions of a carp fisher	p. 101
A shooting man
Tide's Ending	p. 122
Manka, the sky gipsy	p. 131
Dark Estuary	p. 161
Recollections of a 'longshore gunner	p. 179
Lepus the brown hare	p. 187
The shooting man's bedside book	p. 195
A Wandering Man
The Wayfaring Tree	p. 206
A Summer on The Nene	p. 213
The White Road Westwards	p. 219
Summer Road to Wales	p. 229
September road to caithness	p. 233
The autumn road to the isles	p. 239
Ramblings of a sportsman-naturalist	p. 255
Letters from compton deverell	p. 261
A happy countryman
The idle countryman	p. 273
Lord of the forest	p. 285
The naturalist's bedside book and Indian summer	p. 291
The quiet fields	p. 302
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