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Tim Cole

About Britain

A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles

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A charming new travelogue retracing the thirteen original routes of the 1951 Festival of Britain guides About BritainAbout Britain is an entirely fresh approach to travel writing. In 1951, the Festival of Britain published a series of thirteen short guides that they dubbed 'handbooks for the explorer'. Their aim was to get people on 'the roads and the by-roads' to see Britain as a 'living country'. Armed with these guidebooks, Tim Cole takes to the roads again to find out what looks the same and what looks different from that moment when Britain's growing car-owning population set out in 1951. The result is a book that combines travelogue and… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4729-3726-1
  • EAN: 9781472937261
  • Produktnummer: 34227427
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.5 cm

Über den Autor


Tim Cole is Professor of Social History at the University of Bristol and Director of the Brigstow Institute, which brings researchers together across the university to work with those outside it exploring what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. When not journeying through the landscape and along the highways and by-ways of Britain, Tim lectures on modern history with an interest in geography and place.@TimCole_Bristol

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