Pipers Hill: Memories of a Country Childhood,Oliver Holt

BRAND NEW SHOP STOCK, may be a little shop worn/scuffed. See photos and description below for details.\n\nPipers Hill\nOliver Holt\n\nISBN: 0951770020\n\nHardback\n144 pages\n\""Nature is, and always has been, Oliver Holt's inspiration, but, in a pressured world, it is his unique ablility to stand back from his subject and to distil the essence of experiences learned in youth, relearned in a changing world, and relived in maturity, which makes this a very special book.\nHis delight in birds, from the goldcrest and the pied wagtail to the exotic golden oriole, and in wild flowers and butterflies, such as cyclamen, the wood argus and the family of blues, is revealed through a filigree of history, from the Franco-Prussian War of 1866 to the aftermath of Hitler's assualt on Europe.\nIt is not only Oliver Holt's contemporaries (he is now in his eighties) but also readers one and two generations his junior who will quicken to the special thrill of experiences shared across time.  His s.