LANDMARKS OF BRITAIN: The Five Hundred Places That Made our History :: Non Military Titles :: Other Categories

A brilliant and eclectic choice of buildings and landscapes which contributed to the rich story of Britain from Maiden Castle to modernist architecture, and from scientific sites to literary shrines. Beautifully photographed and a joy to own.

History is as much about places as as it is about the people who lived there. In this beautifully-produced and magnificently-illustrated and photographed book, Clive Aslet, editor of Country Life magazine and a leading authority on British architecture, visits the places which were vital staging-posts in the rich and unfolding tapestry of our national story. His choices range from the ancient - where the Romans took the waters at Bath or the mysterious shrine of Glastonbury - to the ultra modern, such as the controversial seat of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh or Birmingham’s notorious Spaghetti junction. There are literary shrines - John Milton’s cottage; the Hampstead house where Keats wrote his ‘Ode to a Nightingale’; and Scientific sites - Downe House in Kent where Charles Darwin conceived the theory of Evolution; or Cambridge’s Cavendish laboratory where Ernest Rutherford first split the atom. There arre landscapes formed by God - such as the Gower Peninsula in South Wales, or the Taf estuary which inspired the poetry of Dylan Thomas; and there are monuments made by man: Stonehenge, of course, but also the Hoover factory. There are bridges - Telford’s Menai suspension bridge and Brunel’s masterpiece which carried his Great Western Railway over the River Tamar; and naturally there are the great English country houses : Blenheim; Burleigh and Chatsworth. For a feast of history and geography to dip into at leisure or to swallow greedily whole, this superb book cannot be beaten.

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Product Code:	10264
Author:	Clive Aslet
ISBN:	0 340 73510 4
Format:	547pp, b/w and colour photographs, hb.
Shipping Time:	This item is usually dispatched Next Day
Our Price:	£30.00