Title: The best of Pickering
First published: 2004
Description: Part I : Dead poets stuff : Celebrity -- Representative -- Part 2 : Messing about : Messing about -- Near spring -- Getting it -- Magic -- Trespassing -- Part 3 : School matters : Pedagogica deserta -- At Cambridge -- Occupational hazard -- From my side of the desk -- Part 4 : Bookish matters : Book tour -- Road warrior -- Split infinitive -- Selecting a past -- Composing a life -- Picked up -- Part 5 : Familial essays -- Faith of the father -- Son and father -- Still life-- Patterns -- Pictures -- After the daffodils -- The traveled world.
Subjects: Family, Nature, Essays
LC classification: AC8 .P6725 2004