This England

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A high-pitched command rings out across the \ silent íiles. The band crashes into a jaunty JL \^tune. Boots strike the pavement in perfect cadence, fists swing in a precise arc, and the Grenadier Guards step off, scarlet ranks ruler-straight, black bearskins proudly erect. Brilliant pageantry, this, familiar to all. And in these 440 pages -enriched with award-winning pictures -you savor the tales of Yeomen Warders in the Tower of London, the clatter of the Queen's coach, the bonging of Big Ben. Yet "this scept'red isle" is more than London's pomp and ceremony. "In travelling thro' England," wrote Dániel Defoe, "a Luxuriance of Objects presents itself to our View: Where-ever we come, and which way soever we look, we see something New, something Significant, something well worth the Traveller's Stay and the Writer's Care." So you will íind it still. You catch a distant view of Canterbury Cathedral from the road that Chaucer's pilgrims followed, "the holy blisful martir for to seke";... Tovább

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A high-pitched command rings out across the \ silent íiles. The band crashes into a jaunty JL \^tune. Boots strike the pavement in perfect cadence, fists swing in a precise arc, and the Grenadier Guards step off, scarlet ranks ruler-straight, black bearskins proudly erect. Brilliant pageantry, this, familiar to all. And in these 440 pages -enriched with award-winning pictures -you savor the tales of Yeomen Warders in the Tower of London, the clatter of the Queen's coach, the bonging of Big Ben. Yet "this scept'red isle" is more than London's pomp and ceremony. "In travelling thro' England," wrote Dániel Defoe, "a Luxuriance of Objects presents itself to our View: Where-ever we come, and which way soever we look, we see something New, something Significant, something well worth the Traveller's Stay and the Writer's Care." So you will íind it still. You catch a distant view of Canterbury Cathedral from the road that Chaucer's pilgrims followed, "the holy blisful martir for to seke"; you glimpse a stately home as Queen Bess saw it on a royal progress - rising among serene hills with the exuberant pride of the Elizabethan Age. You journey to Bath where stout Román mercbants plunged into a heated pool, where Georgián dandies minueted under the autocratic eye of Beau Nash, the city's self-appointed "king." When The Times of London altered its front page after 181 years by printing news on it, an editorial explained: "Uniqueness is not a virtue if it becomes mere eccentricity. There is no future ... as a museum piece." The lively citizens of "This blessed plot" have no intention of becoming museum pieces. An atomic energy plánt pulses near storied Berkeley Castle; angry young men energize the arts; Beatles' rhythms echo round the world. And new Coventry Cathedral, a blend of (Continued on backftap)
modern genius and ancient ideals, soars above Lady Godiva's rebuilt city, beside bomb-blasted ruins of the old cathedral. Talents blend, too, in these chapters. H. V. Morton leads you through the fells of the Laké District where Words worth andColeridgeroamed.Leonard Cottrell explores the stark, beautiful North Country, land of the Brontés, where shivering legionaries paced Hadrian's Wall. Ernle Bradford guides you through the gentle south, to Winchester, to Hastings, where William the Conqueror won his crown. Alan Villiers cruises West Country coves and traces Pilgrim roots in East Anglia. George Rodger reveals his love affair with a Kentish viliágé. Louis B. Wright probes the Thames Valley and Shakespeare country. National Geographic's Allan C. Fisher, Jr., writes of his beloved London, Melville Bell Grosvenor recalls the delights of the Cotswolds, Merle Severy finds enchantment in the vales of England's "Middle West," and Stuart E. Jones roams the Midlands, where misty hunt country adjoins hives of industry. Vignettes of cricket, British currency, the peerage enliven these pages. And never before has England been presented with such a wealth of color: 620 full-color pictures out of 658 illustrations. A decorated map inside the back cover leads to cities and hamlets, wild moors and quiet glens of "this earth, this realm, this England ..." So widespread has been the praise from reviewers and members that the large first printing quickly sold out. Now a second printing brings the totál to a quarter of a millión copies! This England is available only from National Geographic Society headquarters. You and your friends are invited to write for a free publications catalog and membership information. Address inquiries to the Secretary... Vissza