Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300049800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300049800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300049800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain
Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387007027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387007027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Introduction to the original delineations ... intituled The beauties of England and Wales
Author: James Norris Brewer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
Bookshop Tours of Britain
Author: Louise Boland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912054473
Category : Bookstores
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Bookshop Tours of Britain is a slow-travel guide to Britain, navigating bookshop to bookshop. Across 18 bookshop tours, the reader journeys from the Jurassic Coast of southwest England, over the mountains of Wales, through England's industrial heartland, up to the Scottish Highlands, and back via Whitby, the Norfolk Broads, central London, the South Downs, and Hardy's Wessex. On their way, the tours visit beaches, castles, head down coal mines, go to whiskey distilleries, bird watching, hiking, canoeing, to stately homes, and the houses of some of Britain's best-loved historic writers--and, last but not least, a host of fantastic bookshops.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912054473
Category : Bookstores
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Bookshop Tours of Britain is a slow-travel guide to Britain, navigating bookshop to bookshop. Across 18 bookshop tours, the reader journeys from the Jurassic Coast of southwest England, over the mountains of Wales, through England's industrial heartland, up to the Scottish Highlands, and back via Whitby, the Norfolk Broads, central London, the South Downs, and Hardy's Wessex. On their way, the tours visit beaches, castles, head down coal mines, go to whiskey distilleries, bird watching, hiking, canoeing, to stately homes, and the houses of some of Britain's best-loved historic writers--and, last but not least, a host of fantastic bookshops.
Britain & Ireland
Author: Robin Currie
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426206275
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Colorful illustrations and maps accompany stories of Great Britain and Ireland, covering topics from landscapes to literature and rock bands to the mystique of the royal family.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426206275
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Colorful illustrations and maps accompany stories of Great Britain and Ireland, covering topics from landscapes to literature and rock bands to the mystique of the royal family.
The Beauties of England and Wales
Author: John Britton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Britain by the Book
Author: Oliver Tearle
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 9781473666030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What caused Dickens to leap out of bed one night and walk 30 miles from London to Kent? How did a small town on the Welsh borders become the second-hand bookshop capital of the world? Why did a jellyfish persuade Evelyn Waugh to abandon his suicide attempt in North Wales? A multitude of curious questions are answered in Britain by the Book, a fascinating travelogue with a literary theme, taking in unusual writers' haunts and the surprising places that inspired some of our favourite fictional locations. We'll learn why Thomas Hardy was buried twice, how a librarian in Manchester invented the thesaurus as a means of coping with depression, and why Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 during the Second World War. The map of Britain that emerges is one dotted with interesting literary stories and bookish curiosities.
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 9781473666030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What caused Dickens to leap out of bed one night and walk 30 miles from London to Kent? How did a small town on the Welsh borders become the second-hand bookshop capital of the world? Why did a jellyfish persuade Evelyn Waugh to abandon his suicide attempt in North Wales? A multitude of curious questions are answered in Britain by the Book, a fascinating travelogue with a literary theme, taking in unusual writers' haunts and the surprising places that inspired some of our favourite fictional locations. We'll learn why Thomas Hardy was buried twice, how a librarian in Manchester invented the thesaurus as a means of coping with depression, and why Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 during the Second World War. The map of Britain that emerges is one dotted with interesting literary stories and bookish curiosities.
The Long Field
Author: Pamela Petro
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1956763767
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as "homesickness." At heart, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence. In The Long Field, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology, immigration, ecological crises, and our new divisive politics. On this journey, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time. A finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award and named to the Telegraph's and Financial Times's Top 10 lists for travel writing, The Long Field is an unforgettable exploration of “the hidden contours of the human heart.”
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1956763767
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as "homesickness." At heart, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence. In The Long Field, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology, immigration, ecological crises, and our new divisive politics. On this journey, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time. A finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award and named to the Telegraph's and Financial Times's Top 10 lists for travel writing, The Long Field is an unforgettable exploration of “the hidden contours of the human heart.”
The Spiritual Traveler
Author: Martin Palmer
Publisher: Hidden Spring
ISBN: 9781587680021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Here is a unique guide book that takes us on a journey across the rural and urban landscapes of Britain, and helps us to discover and explore a multitude of sacred sites: ancient stone circles and tombs, Christian and pre-Christian shrines, medieval synagogues, small country churches and much more.
Publisher: Hidden Spring
ISBN: 9781587680021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Here is a unique guide book that takes us on a journey across the rural and urban landscapes of Britain, and helps us to discover and explore a multitude of sacred sites: ancient stone circles and tombs, Christian and pre-Christian shrines, medieval synagogues, small country churches and much more.
Castles
Author: Plantagenet Somerset Fry
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
ISBN: 9780715326923
Category : Castles
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Presents original maps, plans and archive illustrations alongside hundreds of photographs, showing ruins and surviving castles in their glory. This work includes descriptions of hundreds of special buildings, from remote ruins in isolated settings to imposing piles in towns and cities.
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
ISBN: 9780715326923
Category : Castles
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Presents original maps, plans and archive illustrations alongside hundreds of photographs, showing ruins and surviving castles in their glory. This work includes descriptions of hundreds of special buildings, from remote ruins in isolated settings to imposing piles in towns and cities.