Product Description: In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, Robert Gibbings launched his home-made punt on the River Thames and began a slow journey downstream, armed with a sketchpad and a microscope. From the river's source at the edge of the Cotswold Hills to the bustle of London's docks, Sweet Thames Run Softly is a charming, often eccentric, account of an artist-naturalist adrift in English waters...read more

Product Description: COMING DOWN THE WYE by ROBERT GIBBINGS. CHAPTER ONE: is the kind of mountain I like. It is neither too high nor too steep, and there are few precipices. In fact, you can't break your neck without an effort. It is a friendly hill. Once upon a time I travelled to the Pyrenees with K J...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Stories of animals and saints include 'St. Columbia and the White Horse,' 'St. Benno and the Frog,' and 'St. Moling and the Fox'

Product Description: This book is in a sense a continuation of Lovely is the Lee. Robert Gibbings begins where he left off, at Cougane Barra among the mountains on the Cork and Kerry border. Now he leaves the banks of the Lee and opens up the whole of the little-known county of Cork, and leads us farther afield to the famous beauty spots of Kerry and beyond...read more