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Field Work - What Land Does to People and What People Do to Land by Bella Bathurst
$45.00 NZD
Category: Animals
What does it take to make a living from the land in modern Britain?
Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found by Bella Bathurst; Wellcome Collection Staff (Contribution by)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Wellcome Ser.
'By the summer of 1998, it had become clear that there was something wrong with my hearing. It didn't happen suddenly but softly, so softly I almost wasn't aware of it happening; sound seemed to have stolen away ...'For twelve years, Bella Bathurst was deaf. She missed the punchlines and the jokes, avoi ...Show more
Sound: Stories of Music, Connection and Hearing Lost and Found by Bella Bathurst
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Wellcome
In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next twelve years deafness shaped her life, until, in 2009, everythin ...Show more
Special by Bella Bathurst
$27.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Is it true that girls behave better than boys? Or are their methods of destruction merely more subtle? A group of teenaged schoolgirls and their teachers are in the Forest of Dean for a post-exam activity break. Between the compulsory bouts of walks, gym, swimming and cycling, the girls discover that ...Show more
The Bicycle Book by Bella Bathurst
$24.99 NZD
Category: Technology & Transport
A rip-roaring narrative celebration of the 21st century's great transport success story: the bicycle. Millions of us now cycle, some obsessively, and this glorious concoction of history, anecdote, adventure and lycra-clad pedalling is the perfect read for two-wheelers of all kinds. 'At last - a bicycle ...Show more
The Bicycle Book by Bella Bathurst
$49.99 NZD
Category: Technology & Transport
A rip-roaring narrative celebration of the 21st century's great transport success story: the bicycle. Millions of us now cycle, some obsessively, and this glorious concoction of history, anecdote, adventure and lycra-clad pedalling is the perfect read for two-wheelers of all kinds.
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880. ...Show more
The Lighthouse Stevensons - The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson by Bella Bathurst; HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Staff
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
For centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. Mariners' only aids were skill, luck, and single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished by rain. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer a few ...Show more
The Wreckers - A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships by Bella Bathurst
$26.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered ShipsA fine wreck has always represented sport, pleasure, treasure, and in many cases, the difference between living well and just getting by. The Cornish were supposedly so ferocious that notices of shipwrecks were given out during morning service by ...Show more
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