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Liza Picard, author of Elizabeth's London
'Freese has the reader eating out of her hand... A marvellous book.'
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Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
'enthralling... Her style is engaging, her research impressive, her message an important one.''
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IN THE SUMMER OF 1306, bishops and barons and knights from all around England left their country manors and villages and journeyed to London. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
IN THE SUMMER OF 1306, bishops and barons and knights from all around England left their country manors and villages and journeyed to London. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is great in parts where it concentrates on what it suggests it is doing by telling the story and weighing the significance of coal - but the middle bit is dominated by a polemic on the inherent dangers of climate change such that it goes off at a tangent and completely destroys the shape of the narrative, leaving big holes and a strong suggestion that the whole book was conceived simply to deliver this. It's not as if anyone needs telling about climate change and it ruins a worthwhile idea. A pity.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book concentrates on the impact of coal on human history and development, written by an impartial observer (an assistant attorney-general of Minnesota who began to research the impact of coal for her job). It was a real eye-opener, and illustrated that the pollution of the environment started a long time before the Industrial Revolution. A fantastic piece of social history. Highly recommended.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book does not live up to its title - for anyone expecting a Coal version of Yergins "Prize" or Kurlansky's "Salt" or "Cod" they will be sorely dissappointed. This is a book which appears to have been written to suit the authors green ideals and not to map the history of coal.
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