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How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours: From Hedgerows to Heathrow - Hardcover

Mount, Harry

 
9780670919130: How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours: From Hedgerows to Heathrow
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0670919136 ISBN 13: 9780670919130
Verlag: Viking, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

For all their sophistication, Roman roads are responsible for the narrowness of our train seats today. The first Victorian trains were built to the same width as horse-drawn wagons; they, in turn, were designed to fit the ruts left in the road by Roman chariots.

This fascinating and witty book explains how our national characteristics - our sense of humour, our hobbies, our favourite foods and our behaviour with the opposite sex - are all defined by our nation's extraordinary geography, geology, climate and weather.

You will learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; why the Midlands became the home of the British curry. It identifies the materials that make England, too: the faint pink Aberdeen granite of kerbstones; that precise English mix of air temperature, smell and light that hits you the moment you touch down at Heathrow.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Harry Mount is the author of Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, his best-selling book on Latin, and A Lust for Window Sills - A Guide to British Buildings. A journalist for many newspapers and magazines, he has been a New York correspondent and a leader writer for the Daily Telegraph. He studied classics and history at Oxford, and architectural history at the Courtauld Institute. He lives in north London.

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Verlag
Viking
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0670919136
ISBN 13 
9780670919130
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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