The Pebbles on the Beach av Clarence Ellis

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<p><b>*Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller*</b><br><br><b><i>The Pebbles on the Beach</i> was first published in 1954. This newly reissued edition includes a foreword by Robert Macfarlane. </b><b>There is a</b><b> handy illustrated guide to identifying pebbles on the reverse of the book jacket.</b><br><br><i>Pebble-hunting is a pleasant hobby that makes little demand upon one''s patience and still less upon one''s physical energy. (You may even enjoy the hunt from the luxurious sloth of a deck chair). One of the true delights of the pebble-seeker is to </i><i>read the stories in the stones - t</i><i>o determine whence and by what means they came to be there</i><i>. </i><i>We must always bear in mind that a pebble is a transient thing. It is in the half-way stage of a long existence . . .</i><br><br>This is a book about the simple pleasure of pebble spotting. Clarence Ellis is a charming, knowledgeable and witty guide to everything you didn''t know there was to know about pebbles. He ruminat