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2008., BBC Audiobooks America Call No: CD 821.1 C496c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lively, literate and often bawdy, Chaucer draws a picture of medieval English society, from the high class, the knight, to the lower orders, the plowman.
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2018., W. W. Norton & Company Call No: SC 941.37 R776d Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Best-selling author Graham Robb finds that the 2,000-year-old map of Ptolemy unlocks a central mystery of British history. Two years ago, Graham Robb moved to a place of legend called the Debatable Land, an independent territory that once served as a buffer between Scotland and England. The oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain, the Debatable Land was once the bloodiest region in the country. After most of its population was slaughtered or deported, it became the last part of Great Britain to be conquered by England and Scotland. Today, it has vanished from the map and its boundaries are matters of myth and generational memories. Under the spell of a powerful curiosity, Robb began a journey--on foot, by bicycle, and into the past. After correcting the grid of Ptolemy's map, Robb located lost towns and roads and discovered the true history of this maligned patch of land. These personal and scholarly adventures reveal an epic tale of Roman, medieval, and present-day Britain"--
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1989., Weidenfeld & Nicolson Call No: 914.2 J27e Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1985, 1881., Thames and Hudson Call No: 942.37 E96e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Exploring Britain 100 years ago
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1994., H.N. Abrams Call No: 942.1 R964l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: John Russell's memoir of London goes back to before the great fire of 1666, when the modern city was formed. It looks inside St. Paul's Cathedral, under Wren's great dome, and into Westminster Abbey, where the author spent many midnight hours on fire-fighting duty during World War II and came to know the monuments lining the walls as well as he knew the furniture in his own living room. It offers a privileged peek inside Buckingham Palace as well as a leisurely stroll through John Nash's Regent's Park. It lives through great days in the House of Commons, eavesdrops at Lady Holland's soirees, and applauds a new Pinter play. Selected by the author, a gallery of the city's finest recorders illustrates the text, from Canaletto and Zoffany to Rowlandson and Hogarth. Here are Gainsborough and Reynolds, Turner and Monet, Walter Sickert and Lucian Freud, John Thomson and Bill Brandt. Nearly two hundred paintings, drawings, watercolors, architectural renderings, photographs, cartoons, and more serve as visual foils to Mr. Russell's verbal recollections.
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-- London, the biography.2000., Adult, Chatto & Windus Call No: 942.1 A182l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- More notes from a small islandBy Bryson, Bill2015., Doubleday Canada Call No: 914.2 B915r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: FP 100,000. Bill Bryson returns to his internationally beloved topic, Britain, with his first travel book in 15 years. Over 20 years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The hilarious book he wrote about that journey, NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND, became one of the most loved books of recent decades, and was voted in a BBC poll as the book that best represents Britain.
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c1995., Hodder & Stoughton Call No: SC 914.1 P637p Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Cornwall, London and Scotland through the author's eyes.