Penguin English Journeys
Through England On A Side Saddle: English Journeys
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Journeying through England on horseback, the intrepid seventeenth-century traveller Celia Fiennes recorded every sight and experience of her adventure in her journal, from her delight at countryside cakes and the beauty ... Buy or find out more →
Country Lore And Legends: English Journeys
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An charming exploration of England's lore and legends, from the Last Wolf, to Cunning Men, from King Arthur to the Mistletoe Bride, from treacle mines to St George. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the Englis... Buy or find out more →
Clouded Mirror: English Journeys
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In these evocative and elegiac writing L.T.C. Rolt meditates on landscape, history, poetry, steam railways, vintage cars and the endless summer days of his childhood. He also recalls his many happy boating voyages on Bri... Buy or find out more →
Pleasures Of English Food: English Journeys
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Stargazey pie, Cheshire cheese, toffee apples, fish and chips, Sussex pond pudding, Cumberland sausages, pasties, gingerbread, dumplings and Cox's orange pippins are just some of the edible delights in this glorious cele... Buy or find out more →
Wiltshire Diary: English Journeys
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Francis Kilvert's diary shows a compassionate and thoughtful delight in the people and beautiful surroundings of the English countryside. With good cheer he records his loves (among them poetry and the attentions of pret... Buy or find out more →
Life At Grasmere: English Journeys
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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 Samu... Buy or find out more →
Walks In The Wheat Fields: English Journeys
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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' w... Buy or find out more →
Birds Of Selborne: English Journeys
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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 l... Buy or find out more →
English Folk Songs: English Journeys
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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, c... Buy or find out more →
One Green Field: English Journeys
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These poetic and highly personal pieces describe Edward Thomas's wanderings through the English countryside, taking in meadows, farms, inns, maypoles, churches and wildlife. Whether exploring the Kent weald or the heart ... Buy or find out more →
Some Country Houses And Their Owners: English Journeys
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During the 1930s and 1940s, a charming, clever and sharply observant young man named James Lees-Milne visited the owners of country houses all over England with a view to persuading them to hand over their properties for... Buy or find out more →
The Wood: English Journeys
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An academic and writer, during the Second World War John Stewart Collis was put to agricultural work. Clearing and thinning an Ash wood, he found a meditative peace and an earnest pleasure in the use of axe and bill-hook... Buy or find out more →
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard: English Journeys
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The English countryside has inspired some of the most exquisite and well-loved poetry ever composed in the language. This selection of verse includes, among others, Thomas Gray's reflective and moving meditation on morta... Buy or find out more →
Shropshire Lad: English Journeys
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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 f... Buy or find out more →
Cathedrals And Castles: English Journeys
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The American Henry James's 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 c... Buy or find out more →
Beauties Of A Cottage Garden: English Journeys
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This is a celebration of the beauties and possibilities of Heliotrope and Honeysuckle, Auricula, Snapdragon, Spanish Iris and Corydalis, and all the other plants that enliven and exalt the gardens of England. Gertrude Je... Buy or find out more →
Country Churches: English Journeys
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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 s... Buy or find out more →
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gardens: English Journeys
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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 prais... Buy or find out more →
From Dover To The Wen: English Journeys
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Touring the southern counties of England by foot and on horseback from the white cliffs of Dover to the heart of the countryside, William Cobbett recorded a swiftly changing way of life with energy, wit, passion and prin... Buy or find out more →