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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (Paperback)
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (Paperback)
Series: Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guides
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List price R396
Loot Price R332
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'A fresh and funny book that wears its learning lightly'
Independent Discover the era of William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I
through the sharp, informative and hilarious eyes of Ian Mortimer.
We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age.
But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If
you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the
1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you
wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And
if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases,
violence, sexism and famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer
reveals a country in which life expectancy is in the early
thirties, people still starve to death and Catholics are persecuted
for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the
English language, some of the most magnificent architecture, and
sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America and circumnavigate the
globe. Welcome to a country that is, in all its contradictions, the
very crucible of the modern world. 'Vivid trip back to the 16th
century...highly entertaining book' Guardian
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