Gifts of reading
Macfarlane, Robert
Gifts of reading - UK: Penguin Random House, 2019. - 34 p. ; pb; 15 cm.
An overwhelmingly beautiful essay for anyone who has ever loved a book ... Every book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of three minds (the giver, the author, the recipient), an exchange of intellectual and psychological currency, that leaves both participants the richer. Here Robert Macfarlane recounts the story of a book he was given as a young man, and how he managed eventually to return the favour, though never repay the debt. From one of the most lyrical writers of our time comes a perfectly formed gem, a lyrical celebration of the power and preciousness of the given book.
9780241978313
Books- Reading
Robert Macfarlane- 1976
028.9 / MAC
Gifts of reading - UK: Penguin Random House, 2019. - 34 p. ; pb; 15 cm.
An overwhelmingly beautiful essay for anyone who has ever loved a book ... Every book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of three minds (the giver, the author, the recipient), an exchange of intellectual and psychological currency, that leaves both participants the richer. Here Robert Macfarlane recounts the story of a book he was given as a young man, and how he managed eventually to return the favour, though never repay the debt. From one of the most lyrical writers of our time comes a perfectly formed gem, a lyrical celebration of the power and preciousness of the given book.
9780241978313
Books- Reading
Robert Macfarlane- 1976
028.9 / MAC
