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Beginnings and a life in art
The cover and opening pages introduce Blake's Auckland childhood, the beginnings of his artistic life, and the memories that shaped his love of birds.
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Life and work
A Brush With Life
Blake Lawry Twigden's illustrated autobiography, presented here as a chapter-by-chapter reader. Every page preserves the photographs, paintings and handwritten captions of the original archive.
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