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  • A Curious Career

    by Lynn Barber ...
    A wonderfully frank and funny memoir by Britain's greatest and most ferocious interviewer, Lynn Barber.**'**Packed full of incredible stories' Glamour**'**Funny, bold, incisive, clever and interesting' Independent***'***Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout' Zoe HellerLynn Barber, by her own admission, has alwa... ... Read more

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  • Birds in Trouble

    As oil was washing up on the shores of Louisiana, covering shorebirds and their nests and eggs after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Lynn Barber decided to write this book to heighten awareness, not only of the plight of bird species that are declining in numbers every year, but also of the ways in which the birds we see every day may also face the same fate.First explaining the idea of birds “in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • BIRDING TIMES, A LIFE IN RHYMES

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  • Audiobook

    An Education

    by Lynn Barber ...
    Narrated by Carolyn Seymour ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 46 min

    When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence to a precocious experience—an affair with an older man that would change her life. Barber's seducer left her with a taste for luxury hotels, posh restaurants and trips abroad—expensive habits that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Years, Biggest States

    Birding in Texas and Alaska

    Series Book 62 - W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series
    Undertaking a Big Year requires a more extreme version of planning than what is needed to bird in a typical year. In a Big Year a birder is trying to see or hear new birds every day, day after day, throughout the whole year.The first woman to complete a North American Big Year (continental United States and Canada) and identify over 700 species, Lynn E. Barber clocked more than 175,000 miles and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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