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"A great book! Worth re-reading and re-re-reading! Observant, informative, thoughtful, the sense of exploration, discovery, and wonder all shine through and infect the reader. There are numerous points where it gets what I must call mystical - and ..."
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This work, a collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge valley of Virginia, reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings. The author takes us through a year of on-foot explorations...
"The reader's voice is clear and gives pauses and emphasis where needed, as well as mimicking convincingly Hitchcock's voice when he is quoted. Disc one was the most interesting, the rest of the book mainly just deals with one movie after another i..."
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Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to...
