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Dettagli Libro<br><br>Sku: PZZLB9672<br>ISBN: 9780340826164<br>Titolo: England In Particular A Celebration Of The Commonplace, The Local The Vernacular And The Distinctive<br>Autore: Sue Clifford, Angela King<br>Editore: Hodder & Stoughton<br>Anno: 2006<br>Pagine: 528<br>Formato: Rilegato<br><br>Apples, bandstands, beach huts, black dogs, breweries, bricks, cakes, causeways, chalk horses, cheese rolling, cider, cooling towers, curbstones, dances, dialect, dry stone walls, fens, fire festivals, foxes, gargoyles, geology, ghosts, heaths, heronries, ice houses, jet, lagoons, maypoles, mazes, moats, nightingales, peat, pies, primrose banks, quicksand, rhubarb, sheep, spoil heaps, terraced houses, topiary, weather, windmills, zawns. England is a land of extraordinary variety, rich in buildings, landscapes, peoples and wildlife. But this diversity is under siege. Mass production, fashion, increased mobility and the forceful promotion of corporate identity have brought with them standardise