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The Gifts of Reading

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Gifts of Reading

By Robert Macfarlane

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About the book

From the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Landmarks -- an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery 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 each participant enriched. Here Robert Macfarlane recounts the story of a book he was given as a young man, and how...Show more

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ISBN

9780241978313

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2017

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Edition

1

Original title

The Gifts of Reading

Format

Paperback

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