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A King Alone by Jean Giono; Alyson Waters (Translator); Susan Stewart (Introduction by)
24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English for the first time"The book started off entirely by chance, without even a character. The character was the Tree, the Beech, and the starting point--that ...Show more
Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
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Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
Jean Giono's beautiful allegorical tale is legendary. Written in the 1950's, its message was ahead of its time, inspiring readers to rediscoverthe harmonies of the countryside and prevent its willful destruction. The narrator, journeying by foot across the barren plains of the lower Alps, has his thirst ...Show more
Melville - A Novel by Jean Giono
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Moby-Dick looms large in the world's imagination. But by the mid-1930s-eighty years after it first appeared in English, no one had yet translated Melville's great sea-novel into French. The Provencal novelist Jean Giono fell in love with the book. He inspired his friend Lucien Jacques to join him in the ...Show more
The Man Who Planted Trees by Norma L. (AFT) Jean; Goodrich Giono
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jean Giono's beautiful allegorical tale is legendary. Written in the 1950's, its message was ahead of its time, inspiring readers to rediscover the harmonies of the countryside and prevent its willful destruction. The narrator, journeying by foot across the barren plains of the lower Alps, has his thirs ...Show more
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
This is a beautiful gift edition of this classic fable about one man's quest to create a forest, with a new introduction by Richard Mabey. In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzeard Bouffier. Staying with him ...Show more
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks throu ...Show more
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