| Images Of Rural Britain |  |
This is a ?grand tour of Britain? (as the preface puts it) in words and pictures. It is all that and more with 190 glorious colour pictures, backed by a well researched, fact-packed narrative that shapes into an elegantly presented journey around Britain. Author Christopher Somervillec makes his starting point the Thames Valley, to the west of the capital. Since coastline is, for most of Britain, countryside with a sea edge, in no time at all, we are stepping out of deep, rural Surrey and gazing at the the pristine white cliffs of the Seven Sisters in Sussex. |
| England's Heritage |  |
?Who are the English?? author Derry Brabbs asks as the title for his first chapter. This is a book that sets out to look at the built environment and the conservation of it down the centuries. But Derry Brabbs is in no two minds that the achievements of the built environment are really about people power. So understanding the make up of the people ? ?the English? ? that has led to the environment we have today is pretty fundamental. |
| Times Subject To Tides |  |
There can't be many, if any other airports around the world which have adopted the shoreline beach as the main runway for its aircraft. And we're not talking 'planes dropping in every now and again exclusively on leisure and pleasure jollies. "This is serious, everyday scheduled traffic which has been flying in and out since before World War Two" explains author Roy Calderwood, who also happens to be consultant editor at gettingaboutbritain.com. Fascinated by the unusual procedure, he has taken to telling the story of this aerial escapade on Scotland's Outer Hebridean island of Barra, in Times Subject To Tides. |
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