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The Book of Pebbles

By: Christopher Stocks and Angie Lewin
115 pages, colour illustrations
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
The Book of Pebbles
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About this book

The perfect seaside and armchair companion to the pebbles of the British Isles

Why do we pick up pebbles on the beach? What is it we see in them, and why do we take them home to display on our shelves? Is it their inherent beauty, their infinite variation, or simply their associations with a happy time and place?

In The Book of Pebbles – part social history and part practical guide – writer and pebble collector Christopher Stocks unearths the sometimes surprising story of our love-affair with pebbles, and considers how the way we see them today has been influenced over the years by artists, authors and even archaeologists.

Printmaker Angie Lewin is widely admired for her alluringly stylish images of the natural world. She celebrates the experience of walking and sketching along the British coastline, often incorporating pebbles in her limited edition prints and paintings. Many of these feature in The Book of Pebbles alongside a series of new images.

Contents

Foreword by Angie Lewin

1. On Chesil Beach
2. Sir Mortimer at War
3. Picasso’s Pebbles
4. Jim Ede and the Louvre of the Pebble
5. Basically Derek
6. Eminent Victorians
7. At the Natural History Museum
8. No Stone Unturned
9. Some Pebbles
10. Some Beaches

Afterword

Customer Reviews

Biography

Christopher Stocks is an author, journalist and trainee bell-ringer. His first book, Forgotten Fruits, a social history of British fruit and vegetables, became an unlikely success, with Monty Don choosing it as his favourite book of the year. Angie Lewin studied fine art at the Central School of Art and has become a highly regarded artist and printmaker.

By: Christopher Stocks and Angie Lewin
115 pages, colour illustrations
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Media reviews

"For anyone unable to walk along a beach without stopping every few steps to pick up a lozenge of quartz washed by the receding tide or a grey-slate skimmer, this book is an ideal companion."
Country Life

"As someone who lives on Chesil Beach – perhaps the most famous shingle beach in the UK – Christopher Stocks is uniquely well-placed to talk about the visceral appeal of pebbles: the sounds they make as they are ground together by the waves and their physical properties – their "weight and heft, their smooth shapes seeming almost designed to be held in the hand"."
The Scotsman

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