Other People's Trades

OTHER PEOPLE'S TRADES contains 43 essays originally written for newspaper publication. They are, in the author's words, 'the fruit of my roaming about as a curious dilettante for more than a decade ... invasions of the field, incursions into other people's hunting preserves, forays into the boundless territories of zoology, astronomy and linguistics.

Softcover. English. Abacus. 1990. ISBN: 9780349101859. 224 pp. Fair/good. Book No: 57538