Go Slow England & Wales
Go Slow England & Wales

Author: Alastair Sawday

Publisher: Alastair Sawday's Special Plac

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906136444

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Following the success of "Go Slow England", this new edition delves into the pleasures of Slow food, Slow travel and Slow living - from Land's End to Llandenny. "Go Slow England & Wales" celebrates life in the slow lane with a hand-picked selection of special places to stay. There's also advice on cultural, historic, gastronomic and unusual places to visit, and a small collection of regional recipes. You can discover the pleasure of staying with owners who choose to support their community, are passionate about seasonality and home-grown produce, and care about their effect on the environment. Among them are artists, musicians, farmers, chefs, historians - people who take the time to enjoy life at its simplest best.

Go Slow England
Go Slow England

Author: Alastair Sawday

Publisher: Little Bookroom

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781892145673

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Celebrates the slow philosophy of life with a selection of the places, recipes and people who take their time to enjoy life at it most enriching. This book focuses on the people who live in Special Slow Places and what they do. You will meet farmers, literary people, wine-makers and craftsmen - all with stories to tell.

Go Slow
Go Slow

Author: Michael Owen

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2017-07-01

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1613738595

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It has been said that the records of singer and actress Julie London were purchased for their provocative, full-color cover photographs as frequently as they were for the music contained in their grooves. During the 1950s and 1960s, her piercing blue eyes, strawberry-blonde hair, and shapely figure were used to sell the world an image of cool sexuality that stoked the fevered dreams of many men. The contrast between that image and reality, the public and the private, is at the heart of Julie London's story. Through years of research, extensive interviews with family, friends, and musical associates, and access to rarely seen or heard archival material, author Michael Owen reveals the impact that her image had on the direction of her career and how it influenced the choices she made, including the decision to walk away from performing. Go Slow follows Julie London's life and career through its many stages: her transformation from 1940s movie starlet to the coolly defiant singer of the classic torch ballad "Cry Me a River" of the 1950s, and her journey from Las Vegas hotel entertainer during the rock and roll revolution of the 1960s to the no-nonsense nurse of the 1970s hit television series Emergency!

Go Slow Italy
Go Slow Italy

Author: Alastair Sawday

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1892145812

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Italy, the birthplace of the Slow movement and the home of Slow Food, is a natural as the second destination in our new Slow series. Alastair Sawday has handpicked forty-six exceptional places to stay–places where attention is lavished on some of the most important things in life: convivial meals, community, a respect for the environment, and a celebration of regional distinctiveness. From the mountainous north, through cypressdotted Tuscany, and on down to the gutsy, colorful south, you’ll discover innkeepers and cooks that have an unmatched passion for Slow Travel and Slow Food, and whose hospitality embody their commitment to the finest accommodations and food. Go Slow Italy celebrates fascinating people, fine architecture, history, landscape, and real food.

Take the Slow Road: England and Wales
Take the Slow Road: England and Wales

Author: Martin Dorey

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-05-16

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1844865347

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Forget hurrying. Forget putting your foot down and racing through sweeping bends. Forget the understeer (whatever that is). Forget the blur of a life lived too fast. This is a look at taking life slowly. It's about taking the time to enjoy journeys and places for their own sake. It's about stopping and putting the kettle on. Stopping to take a picture. Stopping to enjoy stopping. How are you going to do it? In a camper van or a motorhome, of course. In this book we define the best driving routes around England and Wales for camper vans and motorhomes. We show you the coolest places to stay, what to see, what to do and explain why it's special. We meander around England and Wales on the most breathtaking roads, chugging up mountain passes and pootling along the coast. We show you stuff that's fun, often free. We include the best drives for different kinds of drivers; for surfers, wildlife watchers, climbers and walkers. We include the steepest, the bendiest, those with the most interesting bridges or views or obstacles, ferries and tidal causeways. And you don't even have to own a camper van or motorhome – we'll tell you the many places you can rent one to take you on the journey. All of this is interspersed with beautiful photos, handy maps and quirky travel writing from the king of camper vans and motorhomes, Martin Dorey. So if all you want to do is flick through it on a cold day and plan your next outing, you'll be transported (albeit slowly) to pastures, beaches, mountains and highways that make you want to turn the key and go, go, go!

A Journey Through Ruins
A Journey Through Ruins

Author: Patrick Wright

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2009-02-26

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780191580086

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A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher's rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London. Written at a time when the looming but still unfinished tower of Canary Wharf was still wrapped in protective blue plastic, its cast of characters includes council tenants trapped in disintegrating tower blocks, depressed gentrifiers worrying about negative equity, metal detectorists, sharp-eyed estate agents and management consultants, and even Prince Charles. Cutting through the teeming surface of London, it investigates a number of wider themes: the rise and dramatic fall of council housing, the coming of privatization, the changing memory of the Second World War, once used to justify post-war urban development and reform but now seen as a sacrifice betrayed. Written half a century after the blitz, the book reviews the rise and fall of the London of the post-war settlement. It remains one of the very best accounts of what it was like to live through the Thatcher years.

The Spectator
The Spectator

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1927

Total Pages: 1280

ISBN-13:

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