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  • The Wet Flanders Plain

    by Henry Williamson ...
    The Wet Flanders Plain was first published in 1929 - also the year of, inter alia, Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Graves's Goodbye to All That, and Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Henry Williamson's book stands alongside those works as a classic of the Great War.In 1928 Williamson revisited the battlefields of Flanders and Northern France in the company of a fellow veteran. He wanted ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Tarka the Otter

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Illustrated by Annabel Large ...
    Series series A Puffin Book
    The classic story of an otter living in the Devonshire countryside which captures the feel of life in the wild as seen through the otter's own eyes. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Stumberleap, and other Devon writings: Contributions to the Daily Express and Sunday Express, 1915-1935

    Henry Williamson Collections, #1

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Series Book 1 - Henry Williamson Collections
    Henry Williamson remains best known for his nature stories set in North Devon,Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon. His long association with the Daily Express, which supported him from the outset of his literary career, actually began without his knowledge, when his father submitted to the newspaper the letter that the young Henry, then a private with the London Rifle Brigade, had written from ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter: A brief look at his Life and Writings in North Devon in the 1920s and '30s, the area known today as Tarka Country

    Henry Williamson Collections, #20

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Series Book 20 - Henry Williamson Collections
    In early 1921 the young Henry Williamson, traumatised by his experiences in the First World War, moved from London to a tiny cottage in North Devon, seeking solitude and renewal. Here he began to make his name as a writer with nature stories and sketches about rural life and his early novels; and here he wrote the Hawthornden Prize-winning 'Tarka the Otter' which remains the book for which he is ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dark Lantern

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Series Book 1 - A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight
    The Dark Lantern (1951) was the first of Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlightspanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. In it we meet Richard Maddison, a countryman working in London as a City clerk, struggling to make do on a few shillings a week. He falls for Hetty Turner, youngest daughter of a prosperous merchant, but her father ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Clear Water Stream

    Henry Williamson Collections, #11

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Series Book 11 - Henry Williamson Collections
    Whether the reader is an angler, naturalist, country lover or simply receptive to Williamson's limpid prose, A Clear Water Stream embraces all these passions.The Williamson family moved to Shallowford on the River Bray in North Devon, England, in 1929. With his typical zest, the author set about revitalizing the river, stocking it with both salmon and trout, and building low weirs, thus creating ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tarka the Otter

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In the wild there is no safety. The otter cub Tarka grows up with his mother and sisters, learning to swim, catch fish - and to fear the cry of the hunter and the flash of the metal trap. Soon he must fend for himself, travelling through rivers, woods, moors, ponds and out to sea, sometimes with the female otters White-tip and Greymuzzle, always on the run. Eventually, chased by a pack of hounds, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Chronicles of a Norfolk Farmer: Contributions to the Daily Express, 1937-1939

    Henry Williamson Collections, #2

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Series Book 2 - Henry Williamson Collections
    Covering Williamson's last months at Shallowford in Devon, the family's move to a derelict farm in North Norfolk, the difficulties encountered by a total beginner to farming – including the disastrous crash in the price of barley in 1938 – and the opening months of the Second World War, these 45 articles written by Henry Williamson (author of Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon) for the Daily ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lone Swallows

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Along the trackless and uncharted airlines from the southern sun they came, a lone pair of swallows, arriving with weakly and uncertain flight from over the wastes of the sea. They rested on a gorse bush, their blue backs beautiful against the store of golden blossom guarded by the jade spikes. The last day of March had just blown with the wind into eternity. Symbols of summer and of loveliness, ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lone Swallows

    by Henry Williamson ...
    "The Lone Swallows" by Henry Williamson is a poignant exploration of nature and the human condition, set against the backdrop of the English countryside. The narrative follows the lives of swallows as they migrate, symbolizing freedom and the cyclical nature of life. Williamson's lyrical prose captures the beauty of the natural world, intertwining the lives of the birds with the experiences of the ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Young Phillip Maddison

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Series Book 3 - A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight
    Young Phillip Maddison (1953) was the third entry in Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. It carries forward the story of Phillip as he grows towards manhood in the years immediately preceding the Great War. Unpredictable and wayward, Phillip nevertheless possesses a keen love of nature, which ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Love and the Loveless

    A Soldier's Tale

    by Henry Williamson ...
    Series Book 7 - A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight
    Love and the Loveless (1958) was the seventh entry in Henry Williamson's fifteen-volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. The year covered by this novel, 1917, was perhaps the darkest of the Great War, with widespread mutinies in the French Army after the disastrous Nivelle offensive. Phillip Maddison is now a young transport ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD