ISBN: 9781908213204 - A Time from the World (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A Time from the World (Nature Classics Library) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Published by 'Little Toller Books', Lower Dairy, Toller Fratrum, Dorset. A small print run, now O.O.P. Printed in Spain by 'GraphyCems' Nevarra. Introduction by Jay Griffiths. Illustrated by Alice Pattullo. Softcover, condition Near Fine. No P/O names or inscriptions. No bumps to corners. No creases to spine. Text block remains straight and tight with hinges intact. Age tanning to top of text block. Light, almost unnoticeable shelf wear to lower edge of covers. The inner front and back covers and the front pictorial endpaper have very few, very light dots of foxing. Originally published in 1962. Rowenna Farre describes her double life while studying art in London as a young woman in the 1950's. For months on end she would disappear to Scotland or the English-Welsh borderlands, where she lived as part of a Gypsy community. A Time From The World is an intimate account of a nomadic culture that is repeatedly sensationalised, glamourised demonised, and just plain misunderstood. Rowenna Farre honours an ancient nomadism. The book carries a historic weight, as one of the last close-up portraits of a whole culture at the end of its journey, ordered by the intolerance of modernity to move on, get along: into the past (Jay Griffiths). Alice Pattullo (illustrator).…