Shakespeare's Avon

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SHAKESPEARE'S - AVON - The Avon runs through the heart of England and the heart of English history. From its source in the village of Naseby, Northamptonshire, to the point at which it merges with the Severn, the river traces a course of less than a hundred miles, yet passes somé of the most famous sites in the country 'What scenes and men are before us!' wrote the nineteenth-century diaristJames Thorne: 'Naseby, Evesham, Tewkesbury, Stratford, Wiclif, Shakespeare, Butler...' And, of course, it is above all the association with Shakespeare and with the markét town of his birth - and death - that has made this short stretch of water one of the bestknown rivers in the world In Shakespeare's Avon we see the river in all seasons and in all its variety. Together Robin Whiteman's text and Rob Talbot's photographs escort us through village, town and country; through lush meadows, dappled woods, rich farmland, fruit-laden orchards; past the abbeys of Coombe, Stoneleigh, Pershore and... Tovább

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SHAKESPEARE'S - AVON - The Avon runs through the heart of England and the heart of English history. From its source in the village of Naseby, Northamptonshire, to the point at which it merges with the Severn, the river traces a course of less than a hundred miles, yet passes somé of the most famous sites in the country 'What scenes and men are before us!' wrote the nineteenth-century diaristJames Thorne: 'Naseby, Evesham, Tewkesbury, Stratford, Wiclif, Shakespeare, Butler...' And, of course, it is above all the association with Shakespeare and with the markét town of his birth - and death - that has made this short stretch of water one of the bestknown rivers in the world In Shakespeare's Avon we see the river in all seasons and in all its variety. Together Robin Whiteman's text and Rob Talbot's photographs escort us through village, town and country; through lush meadows, dappled woods, rich farmland, fruit-laden orchards; past the abbeys of Coombe, Stoneleigh, Pershore and Tewkesbury; and past the great casdes of Kenilworth and Warwick. The river Avon is rich in legend and románcé, and we meet here many familiar names from the past, among them Elizabeth I, Olivér Cromwell, Lady Godiva, Charles I and Guy of Warwick, as well as Shakespeare himself Illustrated throughout in full colour, Shakespeare's Avon is a beautiful and covetable guide to a unique part of England. Vissza