Landmarks of Britain: The Five Hundred Places that Made Our History

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 2nd. stated.* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing Stourhead. French flaps with no bumps or rubs. No visible shelf wear to edges or corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Absolutely minimal darkening to edges. FINE* Illustrations: Five blocks of 16pp. b/w & colour plates within text.* Pages: 487 pp. text. lx pp. gazzeteer, acknowledgements, index and blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- This is no conventional gazetteer, nor is it a guide book. It is a charming, erudite, amusing and very personal list?. Clive Aslet?s energy, enthusiasm and learning, always lightly worn, are prodigious ?Delightful. ?David Dimbleby?. LANDMARKS OF BRITAIN is the history of the nation, told through the places where it happened. Each if the ?landmarks? that Clive Aslet describes tells the sweeping panorama of history, encompassing battlefields, cathedrals and palaces, of course, but also places linked with great events in the worlds of science, literature, architecture, religion, espionage, sport, agriculture and industry. * This is a FINE copy of the 1st./2nd. with absolutely minimal age darkening to the page edges.*