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Everything You Know About England is Wrong (Hardcover)
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Everything You Know About England is Wrong (Hardcover)
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List price R369
Loot Price R249
Discovery Miles 2 490
You Save R120 (33%)
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A highly entertaining read for anyone interested in English history
and culture, this great myth-busting book takes you on a great ride
through history and the national character. Think we're the land of
Punch and Judy and Morris Dancing? Think again as both traditions
started in southern Europe. Love Winston Churchill's wartime
speeches? Well, they were recorded by an actor. Packed with details
on real English history, the book explodes a range of national
myths from bluebirds in Dover (they are not indigenous European
birds) to the origin of the Cornish pasty (they might have been
invented in London), from our stiff upper lip (an Americanism) to
where you can spend a Scottish bank note. English arts,
entertainment, food, drink, kings and queens, traditions as well as
politics are all covered to give you a fascinating insight into the
true England. Includes an additional chapter on Scottish, Welsh and
Irish myths that we've been peddling in England for decades and
need to be laid to rest.
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