Author: Falkus, Hugh:
Title: The Stolen Years.
Description: London, H F & G Witherby Ltd, 1979 2nd Ed., hard cover brown cloth bds, in VG+ unclipped dust jacket, no names, inscriptions etc..., with 49 drawings by the author, a little age-speckling to leading pge edge block, contents clean and tight, bk leans a little, pp216. "Humorous, nostalgic and intensely moving by turn, Hugh Falkus recollects his boyhood days spent among wild marshlands and estuaries." This second edition includes a new chapter descibing an "...air battle and its sequel during the summer of 1940: a thrilling and haunting episode that links subtly with his boyhood memories and adds dramatic emphasis to the title of the book.""

Keywords: boyhood memoir Essex marshlands estuaries life air battle spitfire natural history wildfowler boat sailing memoir nature memories 0854931309


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