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The Village News - The Truth Behind England's Rural Idyll (Paperback)
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The Village News - The Truth Behind England's Rural Idyll (Paperback)
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List price R263
Loot Price R241
Discovery Miles 2 410
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'An entertaining book, written with Fort's characteristic
conversational style... A real pleasure to read' - BBC Countryfile
'A wide-ranging, intelligent and bracingly enjoyable book' - The
Literary Review 'Meticulously researched and seasoned with wry
humour, this is a perceptive and richly rewarding read' - Mail on
Sunday We have lived in villages a long time. The village was the
first model for communal living. Towns came much later, then
cities. Later still came suburbs, neighbourhoods, townships,
communes, kibbutzes. But the village has endured. Across England,
modernity creeps up to the boundaries of many, breaking the
connection the village has with the land. With others, they can be
as quiet as the graveyard as their housing is bought up by city
'weekenders', or commuters. The ideal chocolate box image many
holidaying to our Sceptred Isle have in their minds eye may be true
in some cases, but across the country the heartbeat of the real
English village is still beating strongly - if you can find it. To
this mission our intrepid historian and travel writer Tom Fort
willingly gets on his trusty bicycle and covers the length and
breadth of England to discover the essence of village life. His
journeys will travel over six thousand years of communal existence
for the peoples that eventually became the English. Littered
between the historical analysis, are personal memories from Tom of
the village life he remembers and enjoys today in rural
Oxfordshire.
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