Wessex: 1 - Hardcover

Whitlock's Wessex

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Whitlock's Wessex. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. In this new annual the author goes - like Mr. Pickwick - in search of the life, lore and history of our countryside. His journey takes him to the nature researve of Nrownsea Island; to a new museum of rural life near Yeovil; to St. Austell, where the china-clay spoil heaps have been landscaped and an open-air museum of special interest to industrial archaeologists is taking shape; to the Long Ashton Research Station at Bristol; and to a village in Somerset where, 100 years ago, a curious community which claimed to have abolished sin established themselves in the manor-house. This book speaks with the authentic voice of rural England. It will give a new insight to those already living in the West Country, and must fascinate everyone interested in natural history, dialect, rural crafts and country customs. Illustrated. 108 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Artikel-Nr. 097031

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