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Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Notes from an Island about?
From a renowned artist and writer, a deeply personal nature journal about the island that informed her many works, with paintings from her longtime partner, artist Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietilä. In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless island in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, where for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the visual artist, Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietilä, lived, painted, and wrote, energized by the solitude and shifting seascapes. The island's flora, fauna, and weather patterns provided deep inspiration which can be seen reflected in all of Jansson's work, most famously in her bestselling novel The Summer Book and her longstanding comic strip and novels for children, Moomin . Tove's signature spare, quirky prose, and Tooti's subtle ink washes and aquatints combine to...
Who reads Notes from an Island?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä
- Publisher
- Timber Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781643264790
- Category
- nonfiction
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