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At the end of the eighteenth-century Britain fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick's 'History of British Birds' marked the moment: the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. This biography tells a story of violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life and the beauty of the wild.Read More

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  • Erin Britton19 October 2008

    Once again Jenny Uglow has produced an enthralling biography that, while clearly based on painstaking historical research, is hugely readable and sympathetic to the life and times of the central figure. Although Bewick"s own life was rather straightforward, he lived in interesting times. Indeed, Bewick"s life overlapped with those of Birmingham"s famous Lunar Men, the subject of a previous book by Jenny Uglow, and Uglow has once again demonstrated an expert grasp of period detail. As well as illuminating the life of Bewick himself, she manages to highlight the times behind the life. Uglow brings the reality of the calm and serene 18th century Tyne Valley as well as the bustling and competitive professional life of Newcastle to life. As well as being a pleasure to read, Nature"s Engraver is also a pleasure to behold with the finest works of Bewick, works of minute delicacy and precision, being produced in glorious detail.

  • Foyles

    Thomas Bewick wrote A History of British Birds at the end of the eighteenth century, just as Britain fell in love with nature. This was one of the wildlife books that marked the moment, the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. But it was far more than that, for in the vivid vignettes scattered through the book Bewick drew the life of the country people of the North East - a world already vanishing under the threat of enclosures.In Nature's Engraver: The life of Thomas Bewick, Jenny Uglow tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood-engraving and influenced book illustration for a century to come. It is a story of violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life and the beauty of the wild - a journey to the beginning of our lasting obsession with the natural world. Nature's Engraver won the National Arts Writers Award in 2007. Jenny Uglow is the author of, among others, A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize, Lunar Men and In These Times. 'The most perfect historian imaginable' Peter Ackroyd

  • Blackwell

    Tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood-engraving and influenced book illustration for a century to come. Thomas Bewick wrote A History of British Birds at the end of the eighteenth century, just as Britain fell...

  • 0571223753
  • 9780571223756
  • Jenny Uglow
  • 6 September 2007
  • Faber and Faber
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 480
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