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English Journeys: A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
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Category: Poetry | Series: English Journeys
This magical and poignant evocation of coming of age in the countryside describes lovers in secluded lanes, cricket and church bells, cherry trees hung with snow and woods full of bluebells. Yet in "A Shropshire Lad" the fields and hills are also places of loss and sorrow, where men die young or are sen ...Show more
English Journeys: Birds of Selborne by Gilbert White
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Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: English Journeys
The letters of the eminent naturalist Gilbert White are full of precise, unaffected and delightful observations of the wildlife of his beloved village of Selborne, describing the habits, colours and songs of birds from lapwings to barn-owls, wrens to house-martins. Here too are exquisite writings on tre ...Show more
English Journeys: Cathedrals and Castles by Henry James
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Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: English Journeys
The American Henry James' descriptions of the countryside, monuments, universities, cathedrals, castles, customs and manners of the English are filled with elegant charm and good humour. Here he delights in the hidden corners of ancient Chester streets, marvels at the drunken jollity of Epsom Derby day ...Show more
English Journeys: English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Category: Poetry | Series: English Journeys
This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs ...Show more
English Journeys: Let Us Now Praise Famous Gardens by Vita Sackville-West
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: English Journeys
In this unique gardening chronicle Vita Sackville-West weaves together simple, honest accounts of her horticultural experiences throughout the year with exquisite writing and poetic description. Whether singing the praises of sweet-briar, cyclamen, Indian pinks and the Strawberry grape, or giving practi ...Show more
English Journeys: Life at Grasmere by Dorothy Wordsworth
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Category: Classics | Series: English Journeys
The beautiful and peaceful heart of the Lake District, Grasmere was an inspiration to both Dorothy and William Wordsworth. Hills, lakes and orchards, letter writing, walks and welcome visitors (including fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge) provoked in Dorothy's journal great, lyrical prose, which in tu ...Show more
English Journeys: Some Country Houses and Their Owners by James Lees-Milne
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Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: English Journeys
The delightful, gossipy diaries of James Lees-Milne describe his encounters with the owners of country houses - from eccentric lords and oil millionaires to raffish socialists - as he travelled over England saving properties for the National Trust. Here are sharply observed accounts of dinner with Vita ...Show more
English Journeys::country Churches by Simon Jenkins
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Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: English Journeys
This is a celebration of England's most glorious churches, from Norman masterpieces and Medieval treasures to Baroque splendour and Victorian high gothic. Simon Jenkins has travelled England from Cornwall to Cumbria to select its finest churches of all periods and styles, unearthing rich mosaics, precio ...Show more
Walks in the Wheat-fields by Richard Jefferies
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Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: English Journeys
The countryside is filled with beauty and wonder in these imaginative, idiosyncratic writings, but also cruelty and hardship. They describe the texture of an owl's feather, the colours of autumn and the sound of rooks' wings sweeping across the sky. Yet here too is the grinding toil of reaping the harve ...Show more
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