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Riding Route 94 - An Accidental Journey through the Story of Britain (Paperback)
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Riding Route 94 - An Accidental Journey through the Story of Britain (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 2 780
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On previous journeys through Britain, David McKie headed for places
he had heard of and was eager to see. But how true, how
representative a picture of the country could that provide? What,
he wondered, might happen if he let chance dictate his itinerary?
McKie decides to travel only where he was taken by buses with the
number 94, stopping off along the way to visit often unexpected
places. Chance also takes the form of unexpected encounters at the
bus stop or stumbling across some fascinating slice of local
history in a country churchyard. Eschewing such simplistic
generalisations as the 'north-south divide', he nonetheless finds
themes emerging: Why do some communities thrive and grow while
others seem set on a course of inevitable decline - sometimes even
communities living cheek by jowl? What kind of urban landscape have
we inherited from the post-war planners, whose best intentions too
often took little account of how people actually want to live? And
how much are our opportunities and expectations shaped by the
communities we are born into? These buses will take David McKie
across the idyllic Isle of Mull (where the driver pauses to let him
drink in the view), to the furthest reaches of Cornwall ('in
England, but certainly not of England'), through the
post-industrial landscape of Middlesbrough, and to a whole host of
places, some privileged, some bereft, some in between. On this
journey readers will discover unfamiliar places for the first time
and see familiar places through fresh eyes.
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