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The History of England - Volume 1 - Foundation (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
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The History of England - Volume 1 - Foundation (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
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List price R360
Loot Price R281
Discovery Miles 2 810
You Save R79 (22%)
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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 Foundation, Ackroyd takes us
from Neolithic England, which we can only see in the most
tantalizing 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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