The King's England. Kent. The Gateway of England and Its Great Possessions.

London England: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good/Good. 1961. Tenth Impression. Cloth. 64mo - up to 3" tall 0340000864 Hardback Hardback. Kent. Wear and a tear to edge of D/J. This little isle set in a silver sea has a gateway worthy of itself. There is nothing to beat Kent. For those who love the Past it is incomparable within these islands. For those who love the Present it has about a million acres crammed with wonder and beauty, reached by some of the best roads in the world. For those who look into the Future it presents a bewildering problem of what will happent to the county of chalk now that coal is coming from its depths. Will the White County become a Black Country? We shall not know. Far back she takes us into history, for she is Norman, Saxon, and Roman and Ancient British first of all. In the very first written record which mentions Enbgland, the notes of a Greek who sailed the Channel 23 centuries ago, Kent is already called by the name it bears today, and the white line of chalk cliffs is what it was when Julius Caesar found them bristling with defenders of the island. Illustrated. 508 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.) .