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Blue Boy by Jean Giono
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A sweeping tale of a boyhood in Provence. Although Jean Giono wrote over fifty volumes of fiction, poems, and plays, and attracted such fervent fans as Henry Miller, his work is not as well-known in America as it deserves to be. Blue Boy , which follows Counterpoints reissue of The Joy of Mans Desiring ...Show more
Hill by Jean Giono
$28.00 AUD
Category: Classics
An NYRB Classics Original Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwork of fields, a mass of green threatens to overwhelm the village. The animal world a miming cat, a malevolent boar displays a mind of its own. The four ho ...Show more
Le Chant Du Monde (The Song Of The World) by Jean Giono
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Folio
La chanson du monde est un roman de 1934 de l'écrivain français Jean Giono. Le récit dépeint une rivière et des vendettas humaines comme faisant partie de la nature. L'histoire contient des références à l'Iliade. Ses thèmes et sa vision de la nature ont été fortement inspirés du recueil de poésie de Wal ...Show more
Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics
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
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics
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
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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
$23.00 AUD
Category: Vintage Classics | 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
The Open Road by Jean Giono
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A nomad and a swindler embark on an eccentric road trip in this picaresque, philosophical novel by the author of The Man Who Planted Trees.The south of France, 1950- A solitary vagabond walks through the villages, towns, valleys, and foothills of the region between northern Provence and the Alps. He pic ...Show more
The Song of the World by Jean Giono
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A modern, magical novel of adventure in Provence.. Simple and magical, Song of the World is an adventure story for the modern era. In France's Provence region, two men embark on a journey to discover the meaning of life. Through writing which is invigorating and fresh, Giono re-presents man's relation ...Show more
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