Historic Towns of England in Pictures

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HISTORIC TOWNS OF ENGLAND IN PICTURES With a Foreword by BRIAN VESEY-FITZGERALD 128 Pages • Nearly 180 Photographs This superb pictorial volume takes you on an armchair tour of ancient cities and towns that have played a memorable part in the colourful, exciting, occasionally grim story that makes up the history of England. The towns are portrayed as they appear today in nearly two hundred magnificent camera-studies by skilled photographers. Expert writers describe them in long detailed captions that alsó remind us of their intriguing links with England's rich and storied past. From every corner of the kingdom come scenes that conjure up visions of famous people, great events and changing patterns of social life through the ages. Here is the Plymouth of Drake; the Winchester of Alfréd the Great; Shakespeare's Stratfordupon-Avon; and the Canterbury of St. Augustine. Here is Bath with its Román ruins and Georgián crescents; Huntingdon, where Cromwell went to school; Monmouth,... Tovább

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HISTORIC TOWNS OF ENGLAND IN PICTURES With a Foreword by BRIAN VESEY-FITZGERALD 128 Pages • Nearly 180 Photographs This superb pictorial volume takes you on an armchair tour of ancient cities and towns that have played a memorable part in the colourful, exciting, occasionally grim story that makes up the history of England. The towns are portrayed as they appear today in nearly two hundred magnificent camera-studies by skilled photographers. Expert writers describe them in long detailed captions that alsó remind us of their intriguing links with England's rich and storied past. From every corner of the kingdom come scenes that conjure up visions of famous people, great events and changing patterns of social life through the ages. Here is the Plymouth of Drake; the Winchester of Alfréd the Great; Shakespeare's Stratfordupon-Avon; and the Canterbury of St. Augustine. Here is Bath with its Román ruins and Georgián crescents; Huntingdon, where Cromwell went to school; Monmouth, birthplace of Henry V; and Evesham, where Simon de Montfort was buried. These are but a few of the ninety or more historic towns depicted in these delightfully illustrated pages. Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, the famous author and broadcaster, has written a most entertaining and informative generál introduction that sets the scene admirably for the book as a whole, while separate, detailed introductions are alsó provided for the five régiónál sections into which the book is divided. THE NORTH COUNTRY MIDLAND ENGLAND THE WEST COUNTRY SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND See alsó back fiap Vissza