Letters to Lily: On How the World Works

by Alan Macfarlane

Book Overview

In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave in it. In these thirty letters, Alan Macfarlane answers his granddaughter's questions about how the world works, how it got to be as it is, what it could be, and where she fits in. Lily's enquiries range from the intimate, personal and moral to the political,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B003ZDNWLI
• ISBN13: 9781861977809
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Ips - Profile Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"