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PublisherRizzoli International Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100847830500

ISBN-139780847830503

eBay Product ID (ePID)64445930

Product Key Features

Book TitleOne Hundred and One Beautiful Towns in Great Britain

Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicPublic Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Europe / Great Britain, Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional), Sociology / Urban

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Political Science, Social Science

AuthorTom Aitken

Book Series101 Beautiful Small Towns Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight53.1 Oz

Item Length11.5 in

Item Width10.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal914.10486

Table Of ContentAbergavenny Aberystwyth Aldeburgh Ambleside Armagh Ayr Bamburgh Barnstaple Bath Beaumaris Berwick Upon-Tweed Beverley Bradford On-Avon Burford Bury St. Edmunds Buxton Caernarfon Cambridge Canterbury Cardigan Carlisle Cheltenham Chester Chichester Chipping Campden Chipping Norton Cirencester Colchester Conwy Cowes Derry Dorchester Durham Eastbourne Enniskillen Exeter Gloucester Guildford Harrogate Hastings Haworth Helmsley Helston Hereford Inverness Kendal Keswick Kingston Upon Hull Knighton Lancaster Lavenham Lerwick Lincoln Linlithgow Llandrindod Wells Llandudno Llangollen Ludlow Masham Matlock Melrose Minehead Norwich Oban Oxford Penrith Penzance Perth Pitlochry Poole Ripon Rochester Rye Salisbury Scarborough Sherborne Shrewsbury Southwold St. Albans St. Andrews St. David's Stamford Stirling Stoke On-Trent Stornoway Stratford Upon-Avon Stromness Swaffham Tenby Tewkesbury Tobermory Truro Tunbridge Wells Warwick Wells Whitby Winchester Windsor Woodstock Worcester York

SynopsisA sequel to the highly successful One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy and One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in France, this book is a unique photographic tour of the most beautiful towns in every region of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The towns of Britain's countryside are among the most charming and unchanged in Europe's history. Readers will want to roam the countryside: from the Norman castle towns of the southeast to the spectacular Roman architecture of Bath and St. Albans, and from Celtic cottage farms in the Scottish lowlands to the stone and iron towns of the Welsh borders and the north, One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Great Britain is as much about the history of the Isles as it is about their beauty today. Tom Aiken's eloquent and informative text not only draws attention to aesthetic, natural, and architectural points of interest in every region, but also brings to life the history of each place, from Shakespeare's Stratford-on-Avon to the royal Cowes, the monastic abbeys of Yorkshire to prehistoric Ireland, and from the Pagan past of the Scottish Highlands to the legends of Roman Britain. A thorough appendix provides travel tips and details and locations for hotels, restaurants, and shops of interest in all the towns. Whether you're an armchair traveler or an Anglo-phile planning yet another trip, this volume is the guide to the varied heritage and hidden treasures of Britain., Published for the first time in flipback - the new, portable, stylish format that's taken Europe by storm. English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world. Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years. In this book Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. The Adventure of English is not only an enthralling story of power, religion and trade, but also the story of people, and how their day-to-day lives shaped and continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.

LC Classification NumberDA632