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About Britain - A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles (Hardcover)
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About Britain - A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 230
You Save R91 (15%)
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A captivating glimpse of Britain then and now, seen from behind the
steering wheel. In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a
series of short guides they dubbed 'handbooks for the explorer'.
Their aim was to encourage readers to venture out beyond the
capital and on to 'the roads and the by-roads' to see Britain as a
'living country'. Yet these thirteen guides did more than celebrate
the rural splendour of this 'island nation': they also made much of
Britain's industrial power and mid-century ambition - her thirst
for new technologies, pride in manufacturing and passion for
exciting new ways to travel by road, air and sea. Armed with these
About Britain guides, historian Tim Cole takes to the roads to find
out what has changed and what has remained the same over the 70
years since they were first published. From Oban to Torquay,
Caernarvon to Cambridge, he explores the visible changes to our
landscape, and the more subtle social and cultural shifts that lie
beneath. In a starkly different era where travel has been
transformed by the pandemic and many are journeying closer to home,
About Britain is a warm and timely meditation on our changing
relationship with the landscape, industry and transport. As he
looks out on vineyards and apple orchards, power stations and slate
mines, vast greenhouses and fulfilment centres for online goods,
Cole provides an enchanting glimpse of twentieth and early
twenty-first century Britain as seen from the driver's seat.
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