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Loading... Lovely Is the Leeby Robert Gibbings
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) EricCostello | Feb 21, 2021 |   ) Schmerguls | Jul 21, 2013 | He certainly proves that he, along with everybody else he meets on his return home, was ”inoculated with gramophone needles” – sure, and a bit like m’self – or had snogged with the Blarney Stone. The reader is treated to histories and tales, supported with Gibbings’ usual glorious woodcuts as he wanders, tramps, and hurries around his home region. The Lee itself (in Cork) makes no appearance for thirty chapters and he barely gets his feet wet before he is again among the ghosts and changelings. It is still a charmer of a book of course, certainly proving that whilst you cannot get the “Oirish” out of this author if you prefer his river books, you do need to get the author out of Ireland and back on the Thames or the Seine. John_Vaughan | Jul 18, 2012 |  ) RicDay | Jan 24, 2009 |
Not so definitely a ""river book"" as Sweet Thames Run Softly, but rather is it a regional book, of the countryside through which the River Lee runs in part, in Southern and Western Eire. Again Mr. Gibbings has given us an enchantingly lovely book, a warmly human reflection of the Irish scene, that people, nature at its most beguiling, and legend and history, fact and fiction, past and present interwoven, as in dialogue and narrative, he tells the story of his journeyings and the stories told him throughout the district. Distinctions
Readers of Robert Gibbings' previous illustrated tales of river life such as "Sweet Thames Run Softly" (1940) and "Coming Down the Wye" (1942) will need no introduction to the unique style that this author uses to explore the people and places that he describes with warmth and affectionate good humour. But the real reason that his books have become so collectable is the delicate and evocative engravings with which he illustrates his subject. In "Lovely is the Lee", first published in 1945, Gibbings has never written with more ease and grace than in this exploration of the River Lee in Ireland. Here is the simple and ancient life, which still exists in Ireland, centered in tiny villages in the southern and western part of the Irish Free State. Gibbings finds every part of that life absorbing. As a naturalist he is sensitive to the bird life of the western counties and islands, and describes with an accurate beauty these winged inhabitants. Richly illustrated throughout with engravings by the author. No library descriptions found. 
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