Edge of England: Landfall in Lincolnshire - Couverture souple

Turner, Derek

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1805260324 ISBN 13 : 9781805260325

Editeur : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

Lincolnshire is England's second-largest county―and one of the least well-known. Yet its understated chronicles, unfashionable towns and undervalued countryside conceal fascinating stories, and unique landscapes: its Wolds are lonely and beautiful, its towns characterful; its marshlands and dynamic coast are metaphors of constant change. From plesiosaurs to Puritans, medieval ghosts to eighteenth-century explorers, poets to politicians, and Vikings to Brexit, this marginal county is central to England's identity. Canute, Henry IV, John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford all called Lincolnshire home. So did saints, world-famed churchmen and reformers―Etheldreda, Gilbert, Guthlac and Hugh, Robert Grosseteste, John Wycliffe, John Cotton, John Foxe and John Wesley―as well as Isaac Newton, Joseph Banks, John Harrison and George Boole. Lincolnshire explorers went everywhere: John Smith to Jamestown, George Bass and Matthew Flinders to Australia, and John Franklin to a bitter death in the Arctic. Artists and writers have been inspired―including Byrd, Taverner, Stukeley, Stubbs, Eliot and Tennyson―while Thatcher wrought neo-liberalism. Extraordinary architecture testifies to centuries of both settlement and unrest, from Saxon towers to sky-piercing spires; evocative ruined abbeys to the wonder of the Cathedral. And in between is always the little-known land itself―an epitome of England, awaiting discovery.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Derek Turner (derek-turner.com) is an Irish-born, Lincolnshire-resident novelist and reviewer. He has written for 'The Economist', 'The Spectator', 'The Times', 'The Daily Mail', 'The Irish Times', 'Country Life', 'Literary Review' and 'The Lady'; his poetry has appeared in 'Quadrant'. This book draws on more than twenty years exploring and reading about Lincolnshire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1805260324
• ISBN 13: 9781805260325
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 468
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