The Icknield Way (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Edward Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133193611X ISBN 13 : 9781331936114

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Follow an old, storied path through fields and hedges, where the land itself tells its history.

This travelogue invites you to walk the Icknield Way as the author traces its course across Oxfordshire and Berkshire, between chalk hills and river flats, glimpsing ancient roads, farm lanes, and village echoes along the way.

In these pages, the landscape becomes a character: the long green banks, elms shading ponds, and hedged lanes that bend with time. Through precise observations and short, vivid detours, the book blends travel writing with antiquarian reflections, revealing how present routes sit atop layers of history—from Roman crossings to medieval field patterns—and how small details, like names on a churchyard, can conjure lives lived on the same ground.
What you’ll experience:

• A grounded, likable narrator who moves along familiar roads and discovers little wonders in plain sight
• Descriptive passages that bring hedges, downs, and village lanes to life with quiet, observational clarity
• Connections between landscape, roads, and local history, without heavy jargon
• Moments of reflection that consider memory, time, and how places acquire meaning

Ideal for readers who enjoy thoughtful nature writing, regional history, and scenic, road‑level travel narratives that reward careful attention to place.

Ideal for readers of travel writing and local history who want a calm, informed stroll through the English countryside.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133193611X
• ISBN 13: 9781331936114
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 340
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