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Foundation, v. 1 - A History of England (Hardcover)
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Foundation, v. 1 - A History of England (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R495
Discovery Miles 4 950
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Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great
river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This
first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first
settled, more than 15,000 years ago, to the death in 1509 of the
first Tudor monarch, Henry VII. In it, Ackroyd takes us from
Neolithic England, which we can only see in the most tantalising
glimpses -- a stirrup found in a grave, some seeds at the bottom of
a bowl -- to the long period of Roman rule; from the Dark Ages when
England was invaded by a ceaseless tide of Angles, Saxons and
Jutes, to the twin glories of medieval England -- its great
churches and monasteries and its common law. With his extraordinary
skill for evoking time and place, he tells the familiar story of
king succeeding king in rich prose, with profound insight and some
surprising details. The food we ate, the clothes we wore, the
punishments we endured, even the jokes we told are all found here,
too.
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