Journey Through Britain
Author: John Hillaby
Publisher: Constable Limited
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780094749900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published 1968. John Hillaby recounts his famous walk from Land's End to John O'Groats
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Journey Through the British Isles
Author: Harry Cory Wright
Publisher: Merrell
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781858944807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnabridged compact edition of photographer Harry Cory Wright's quest to capture the variety of landscapes that make up the modern British Isles.
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780300049800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKObservations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain
Waterlog
Author: Roger Deakin
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781784700065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by John Cheever's classic short story, 'The Swimmer', Roger Deakin set out from his home in Suffolk to swim through the British Isles. The result of his journey is this personal view of an island race.
Trans Britain
Author: Ms Christine Burns
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Published: 2018-01-25
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1783524707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the last five years, transgender people have seemed to burst into the public eye: Time declared 2014 a ‘trans tipping point’, while American Vogue named 2015 ‘the year of trans visibility’. From our television screens to the ballot box, transgender people have suddenly become part of the zeitgeist. This apparently overnight emergence, though, is just the latest stage in a long and varied history. The renown of Paris Lees and Hari Nef has its roots in the efforts of those who struggled for equality before them, but were met with indifference – and often outright hostility – from mainstream society. Trans Britain chronicles this journey in the words of those who were there to witness a marginalised community grow into the visible phenomenon we recognise today: activists, film-makers, broadcasters, parents, an actress, a rock musician and a priest, among many others. Here is everything you always wanted to know about the background of the trans community, but never knew how to ask.
Balti Britain
Author: Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 2012-03-22
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1847086845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSardar travels to Asian communities throughout the UK to tell the history of Asians in Britain - from the arrival of the first Indian in 1614, to the young extremists in Walthamstow mosque in 2006. He interweaves throughout an illuminating account of his own life, describing his carefree childhood in Pakistan, his family's emigration to racist 1950s Britain, and his adulthood straddling two cultures. Along the way he asks: are arranged marriages a good thing? Does the term 'Asian' obscure more than it conveys? Do vindaloo and balti actually exist? And is multiculturalism an impossible dream?
Journey Through Britain
Author: David St John Thomas
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780711225688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid St John Thomas journeys by rail and 'Little Car' around Britain, exploring the fascinating and diverse character of Britain. He reflects on Britain, Britishness, the British people and how they have changed, not always for the worse, over the fifty-odd years he has known them as an author and a publisher.
A Journey Through Ruins
Author: Patrick Wright
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-02-26
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0191580082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Broke Through Britain
Author: Peter Mortimer
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-03-23
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1780574460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the summer of 1998, Peter Mortimer set off on the 500-mile journey from Plymouth to Edinburgh, accompanied only by his King Charles spaniel. He took no money and had no transport or pre-arranged accommodation. Bereft of the basics necessary for human existence, such as food and shelter, he was dependent for his survival on his own wits, the generosity of others and good fortune.
Eating for Britain
Author: Simon Majumdar
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2010-05-27
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1848543530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Who are these people? Look at what they eat.' Simon Majumdar travels the country to find out what British food -- from Arbroath Smokies to Welsh rarebit to chicken tikka masala -- reveals about British identity. Exploring the history of British food, he celebrates the wealth of fare on offer today, and meets the people all over the country -- the farmers, the fishermen, the brewers, bakers and cheese makers -- who have given the British reason to love their food again. Join Simon as he becomes a judge at the Great British Pie Competition (where, to his sorrow, he ends up judging vegetarian pies), as he learns to make Balti with a true Brummie, hunts for grouse, and sees seaside rock being made in Blackpool. EATING FOR BRITAIN is an impassioned and hilarious journey into the meaning of eating British.
