Displaying 1 of 1 1991 Format: Book Author: Adams, Richard, 1920-2016. Title: The day gone by : an autobiography / Richard Adams. Edition: First American edition Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf : 1991. New York : Random House ©1990 Description: xi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Summary: First volume of the autobiography of Richard Adams covering his early life in Taunton, undergraduate days at Oxford and experiences across Omagh, Palestine, Jerusalem, Egypt, Normandy, Denmark, Singapore and Bombay between 1940 and 1947. The account ends with Adams giving Latin tuition to the girl next-door who became his future wife. Adams' early years should be of particular interest to any devotee of the novels since they concern a plethora of incidents which first fired his enthusiasm for nature. The book may be of particular interest to anyone interested in the social history of the period from 1920 to the aftermath of World War II. -- Amazon.com. Subjects: Adams, Richard, 1920-2016 -- Childhood and youth. Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British. Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945. Newbury (England) -- Social life and customs. Genre: Autobiographies. Biographies. Other Author: Waite, Edward Wilkins, 1854-1924, bookjacket artist. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher. Notes: "Originally published in Great Britain by Century Hutchinson, London, in 1990"--Title page verso. "Jacket painting: The Enborne at Aldermaston Mill, Berkshire, by Edward Wilkins Waite, Bridgeman Art Library, London." -- back flap Includes index. LCCN: 90053394 ISBN: 0679401172 9780679401179 Other Number: 22766959 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 4740 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: BIO Adams Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
