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Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writings on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill, and My Mother

Door Simon Schama

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#374449-XI33
Titel	Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writings on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill, and My Mother
Auteur	Schama, Simon
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Bodley Head Childrens
Jaar van uitgave	2010
ISBN10	1847921310
ISBN13	9781847921314
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, some illustrations (including photographs) in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Wednesday brought a pungent sheepy smell emanating from the greyish lamb and barley soup my mother optimistically called 'Taste of the Garden of Eden'. Expel me, please. Haddock in the air? That would be Thursday. The faintest whiff of roasting garlic? That would be what my sister and I uncharitably dubbed 'Friday Night Memorial Chicken'; a venerable object smeared on the breasts with a dab of marmite meant to cheer the bird up as it emerged defeated from the oven. Rattling inside the brittle cavity was that one solitary clove of garlic; the exotic knobble that my mother conceded as a romantic touch amid the iron regimen of her unvarying weekly routine'. Cookery is not necessarily a subject one immediately associates with Simon Schama - one of Britain's most distinguished historians and co... (Lees verder)mmentators. But this selection of his occasional writings is a treasure trove of surprises. Passionate, provocative, entertaining and informative, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble ranges far and wide: from cookery and family to Barack Obama, from preaching and Shakespeare to Victorian sages, from Charlotte Rampling and Hurricane Katrina to 'The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of The Osbournes'. Never predictable, always stimulating, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble allows us to view the world, in all its diversity, through the eyes of one of its most original inhabitants. Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings, The American Future, The Face of Britain and The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492). His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the Guardian and the Financial Times where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented forty films for BBC2 on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics and John Donne.
Pagina's	427
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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