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Britannia Obscura Joanne Parker

Britannia Obscura par Joanne Parker

Britannia Obscura Joanne Parker

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Résumé

From investigations of caves and megaliths to canals and airspace, this book reveals a country with countless competing centres and ceaselessly shifting borders - a land where one person's sleepy, unexceptional province will always be the busy heart of another's map. It opens our eyes to the layered landscape of a very large small island.

Britannia Obscura Résumé

Britannia Obscura: Mapping Britain's Hidden Landscapes Joanne Parker

Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize

Welcome to a large small island.

The outline of the British Isles is instantly recognisable. But jostling within that familiar profile are countless vying maps of the country. Some of these maps are founded on rock, or on the natural features of the land. Far more are built on dreams - on human activity, effort, and aspiration.

From investigations of caves and megaliths to canals and airspace, Joanne Parker reveals a country with countless competing centres and ceaselessly shifting borders - a land where one person's sleepy, unexceptional province will always be the busy heart of another's map.

Britannia Obscura opens our eyes to the infinitely layered, rich and surprising landscape of Britain.

Britannia Obscura Avis

This prodigious book takes us on a fascinating excursion around a Britain obscure to most of us * Daily Mail *
Original and engaging. -- Gillian Tindall * Literary Review *
An affectionate, alternative exploration to make readers feel more familiar with Britain. * Great Outdoors *
Parker's tour is conducted with a light touch in prose which makes learning from her a pleasure. She makes delightful connections between eras and activities, and is conscious of the value of the unknown and uncertain in our lives... At twice the length this book would have been no less enjoyable. -- Horatio Clare * Daily Telegraph *
[Joanne Parker's] book is an eye-opener. -- Andrew McNeillie * Country Life *

À propos de Joanne Parker

Joanne Parker is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter. She has always been interested in the British countryside, in British eccentricities, and in questions of identity. She has lived in York, Edinburgh, Cumbria, Quebec, and now lives on Dartmoor (next door to a pub allegedly built around a standing stone), with a morris dancer, two daughters and a flock of black sheep.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR007094352
9781784700003
1784700002
Britannia Obscura: Mapping Britain's Hidden Landscapes Joanne Parker
Joanne Parker
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Vintage Publishing
20151119
240
Long-listed for Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015 (UK)
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