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A Lust For Window Sills: A Lover's Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble Dash - Hardcover

Mount, Harry

 
9781408700907: A Lust For Window Sills: A Lover's Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble Dash
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1408700905 ISBN 13: 9781408700907
Verlag: Little, Brown, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Ever wondered why the floors in our terraced houses are different heights? Or what the landscape round where you live looked like before it was built on? And did you know you can date a building by its window sills? A LUST FOR WINDOW SILLS tells us why and how. Harry Mount takes us on an engrossing tour of the nation's architecture, exploring the quirks, foibles and tiny details that make our buildings unique, and revealing the fascinating stories and anecdotes behind them along the way. We see every historic building style in Britain in one hour's walk across London, from the Norman apse of St Bartholomew's in Smithfield to the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing, via Gothic in Holborn, Sir Christopher Wren in the City and the Knights Templar at Temple. A trip up the M4 reveals some of our greatest country houses, while a visit to Stonehenge, Avebury and Silbury Hill is a journey back to the Bronze Age. This book is a lively, entertaining and affectionate portrait of our history and the Britain we live in today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Born in 1971, Harry Mount has degrees in Ancient & Modern History from Oxford and Architectural History from the Courtauld Institute. He is a writer and journalist who regularly writes for a range of national newspapers including the Telegraph, Daily Mail and Guardian.

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Verlag
Little, Brown
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1408700905
ISBN 13 
9781408700907
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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