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Growing old

Hardcover • 2020 • English

Growing old: notes on ageing with something like grace

By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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About the book

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs of pre-contact hunter-gatherers and the secret lives of deer and dogs. In this book, the capstone of her long career, Thomas, now 88, turns her keen eye to her own life. The result is an account of growing old that is at once funny and charming, intimate and profound - both a memoir and a life-affirming map all of us may follow to embrace our later years with grace and dignity. Growing Old expl...Show more

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ISBN

9781780724348

Publisher

Short Books

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

Growing old

Format

Hardcover

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