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The Lost Village: In Search of a Forgotten Rural England (Hardcover)

by Richard Askwith (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Ebury Press; First Edition edition (3 April 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0091909139
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091909130
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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`[Richard Askwith] succeeds handsomely, ferreting out a remarkable array of old-timers...their disappearing world captured so vividly'



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'Perceptive, nuanced, restlessly melancholic'
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5.0 out of 5 stars A true picture of England, 9 May 2008
By B&J "Julian" (Newport, USA) - See all my reviews
This is a wonderful book that should be read by anyone who cares about the decline of English rural life. It's an account of a journey through the English countryside in search of 'real' country people and communities who still have roots in the past and the local landscape. (The author captures an amazing array of voices of rural old-timers - farmers, poachers, fishermen, smallholders, gamekeepers, huntsmen, etc) But what really stays with you is the Askwith's voice, which is by turns poetic, melancholy and amusing.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting but a bit 'flat', 29 Sep 2008
By C. Wildervanck (Overschild, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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Although very different, 'The lost village' reminded me of two books: 'English Journey' by J.B. Priestley and 'Notes from a small island' by Bill Bryson. Like both books 'Villages' mourns the loss of typical British qualities, but it lacks the anger of both, and the wit of the latter. And so in comparison it becomes a bit 'flat'. Askwith seems to be too much of a gentleman to really get angry about what he sees, and share his anger with his readers. Still, it is a very well written account of Askwith's 'quest', he meets and describes very well a very colourful bunch of characters and he knows how to tell a lot of anecdotes.
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