In Search Of England

Author : Henry Vollam Morton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of England written by Henry Vollam Morton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text the author goes In Search of England by motor-car and finds, amongst other things, ruined gothic arches at Glastonbury and Norfolk farmers bartering for cigars.

Author : H.v. Morton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786749849
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search Of London written by H.v. Morton and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. V. Morton turns his traveler's intuition and his reporter's eye for detail to the city that has fascinated him since childhood—London past, present, and timeless. He explores the City and the Temple, Covent Garden, SoHo, and all the "submerged villages beneath the flood of bricks and mortar," uncovering layer upon layer of London's history. Morton follows the thread of imagination back and forth across the city, tracing unforgettable scenes: the Emperor Claudius leading his war elephants across the Thames. . .the grisly executions at the Tower. . .the world of Shakespeare, Dickens, and Queen Victoria. . .and the shattered yet defiant city of the Blitz as well as the postwar London of "ruins and hatless crowds." Morton's quest for London’s heart reveals how its daily life is rooted in a past that is closer and more familiar than we might think, making the book as informative, entertaining, and rich in human color today as when it was written fifty years ago.

Author : Francis Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786733617
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edmund written by Francis Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines? The ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds are a memorial to the largest Romanesque church ever built. This Suffolk market town is now a quiet place, out of the way, eclipsed by its more famous neighbour Cambridge. But present obscurity may conceal a find as significant as the emergence from beneath a Leicester car-park of the remains of Richard III. For Bury, as Francis Young now reveals, is the probable site of the body - placed in an `iron chest' but lost during the Dissolution of the Monasteries - of Edmund: martyred monarch of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia and, well before St George, England's first patron saint. After the king was slain by marauding Vikings in the ninth century, the legend which grew up around his murder led to the foundation in Bury of one of the pre-eminent shrines of Christendom. In showing how Edmund became the pivotal figure around whom Saxons, Danes and Normans all rallied, the author points to the imminent rediscovery of the ruler who created England.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030736755X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England, England written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grotesque visionary Sir Jack Pitman has an idea. Since most people are too lazy to travel from landmark to landmark, why not simplify things and create a new England on the Isle of Wight? Unfortunately, his idea is a huge success, and the resulting theme park threatens to supersede the original. Called England, England, it has all the elements of "Old England" in one convenient location. Wander into the new Sherwood Forest and you may spot Robin Hood and his now sexually ambiguous Merrie Men. Or take a stroll to see Stonehenge and Anne Hathaway's Cottage, enjoy a ploughman's lunch atop the White Cliffs of Dover, then pop over to see the Royals, now on contract to Sir Jack, in their scaled-down version of Buckingham Palace. Every detail has been considered: even the postcards come pre-stamped! Julian Barnes' first novel in six years is a ferociously funny examination of the search for authenticity and truth in a fabricated world.

Author : Joe Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mustn't Grumble written by Joe Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0670919047
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of England written by Michael Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Story of England Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries, from the moment that the Roman Emperor Honorius sent his famous letter in 410 advising the English to look to their own defences to the village as it is today. The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. In the thirteenth century the village was bought by William de Merton, who later founded Merton College, Oxford, with the result that documents covering 750 years of village history are lodged at the college. Building on this unique archive, and enlisting the help of the current inhabitants of Kibworth, with a village-wide archeological dig, with the first complete DNA profile of an English village and with use of local materials like family memorabilia, the story of Kibworth is the story of England itself, a 'Who Do You Think You Are?' for the entire nation. 'Better than any historian for decades, [in In Search of England] Wood brings home not just the ways in which buildings, landscapes and written texts may be read, but the sensual beauty of encounters with them' TLS Michael Wood was born and educated in Manchester. He was an open scholar in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford, where he held a Bishop Fraser scholarship in Medieval History as a postgraduate. He has made a number of internationally successful tv series, including In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great, and four of his books have been UK non-fiction number one bestsellers. His highly acclaimed book of essays on early English history, In Search of England, was published by Penguin in 1999.

Author : Jordan Marxer
Publisher : 83 Press
ISBN 13 : 9781940772707
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Hearts Are in England written by Jordan Marxer and published by 83 Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Hearts Are in England offers an impassioned salute to our most cherished destinations.

Author : Lacey Baldwin Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Realm of England, 1399 to 1688 written by Lacey Baldwin Smith and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norah Lofts
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queens of England written by Norah Lofts and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the personal and public lives of women who have been English queens, from Boadicea in the first century to the present Queen Elizabeth II.

Author : Arthur Leslie Morton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789350022559
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A People's History of England written by Arthur Leslie Morton and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: