Watling Street
travels through britain and its ever-present past
$34.98
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2018
Summary
Watling Street: A Journey Through British History and Myth
A journey along one of Britain’s oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.
‘A bravura piece of writing - Bill Bryson on acid’ Tom Holland
Winding its way from the White Cliffs of Dover to the Druid groves of Anglesey, the ancient road of Watling Street has gone by many different names. It is a road of witches and ghosts, of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474603485 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474603483 |
| Author: | John Higgs |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
‘In Watling Street, an exploration of modern Britain and what it means to be British today, Higgs offers a more nuanced understanding of the national psyche … [it] is a book for our times’ - Observer
‘Mischievous and iconoclastic … [Higgs’s] is a systematising imagination, able to harness disparate elements and find the patterns that animate them; that he does so in a more socially inclusive manner than many enriches his theories enormously’ - Financial Times‘On a long drive like this, your companion matters as much as the route, of course - and Higgs is an entertaining one, garrulous but disinclined to hector’ - Mail on Sunday EventAbout The Author
John Higgs
John Higgs is the author of I HAVE AMERICA SURROUNDED, THE KLF, STRANGER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE, WATLING STREET, THE FUTURE STARTS HERE, WILLIAM BLAKE NOW, WILLIAM BLAKE VS THE WORLD and LOVE AND LET DIE. He lives in Brighton.
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