Click & Collect
from 2 Hours*
Last Christmas
delivery dates
Free UK Standard Delivery On all orders over £25 Order in time for Christmas 18th December by 1pm 2nd Class |
20th December by 1pm 1st Class
Free Click & Collect From 2 hours after you order*
West Country: A Cultural History - Landscapes of the Imagination (Paperback)
  • West Country: A Cultural History - Landscapes of the Imagination (Paperback)
zoom

West Country: A Cultural History - Landscapes of the Imagination (Paperback)

(author)
£15.00
Paperback 256 Pages
Published: 26/05/2009

This product is currently unavailable.

  • This item has been added to your basket
The English West Country is a land of exceptional landscapes: many miles of wild, unspoilt coastline and vast expanses of wild moorland; great cities such as Exeter, Plymouth, Bath and Bristol; and market towns, villages and hamlets. On one level, the West Country is the most English of all English regions, home of clotted cream, thatch, church spires, folksong, hobby horses and Cecil Sharp. Yet the area was trading with Mediterranean Europe before the Romans. People lived in the West Country long before Britain, or England, were invented. From the great stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge in Wiltshire to the menhirs of Cornwall, and the wealth of prehistoric remains on the Isles of Scilly, this has always been an inhabited landscape, crafted by men and women working closely with nature and natural forces. John Payne explores this culturally rich and varied region, revealing many facets of its distinctive and much-loved identity.

Publisher: Signal Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781904955610
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 600 g
Dimensions: 203 x 133 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS
'Charming, learned and a little old-fashioned... Payne in a fine addition to Signal's Landscapes of the Imagination list guides us genially and instructively from Hardy's Dorset right down to Hepworth's St Ives.'--The Independent

You may also be interested in...

Modernity Britain
Added to basket
£16.99
Paperback
Witches
Added to basket
£12.99
Paperback
A History of Ancient Britain
Added to basket
A History Of Scotland
Added to basket
Gimson’s Kings and Queens
Added to basket
The English Civil War
Added to basket
The Balfour Declaration
Added to basket
A Great and Terrible King
Added to basket
Austerity Britain, 1945-1951
Added to basket
Tudor
Added to basket
£12.99
Paperback
The Wars Of The Roses
Added to basket
Making Sense of the Troubles
Added to basket
How to be a Victorian
Added to basket
The Churchill Factor
Added to basket
The Battle of Britain
Added to basket

Please sign in to write a review

Your review has been submitted successfully.

env: aptum
branch: