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Nschotschi Haslinger

talking of all that her book brings to the surface” Robert Macfarlane “Nina Mingya Powles is a distinctive new voice: attentive and tender

Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC

Jacopo Crivelli Visconti

Desert Solitaire - A Season in the Wilderness African-American composer The lively text is supportedIntroduction by Robert Macfarlane In this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service. Living out of a trailer, Abbey captures in rapt, poetic prose the landscape of the desert; a world of terracotta earth, empty skies, arching rock formations, cliffrose, juniper, pinyon pine and sand sage. His summers become