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Lycett Green is true to the concept of the "unwrecked" in choosing a wide variety of buildings and places. As well as the expected categories of castle, church, and country house, this book makes room for an oak tree, a music hall, a railway station, a cemetery, a deceased coal mine, a canal tunnel, a "mizmaze", three museums (the zoological one in Tring sounds particularly enticing), a shop (Liberty), a race-course (Cartmel) and a waterfall. If you follow Lycett Green's trail, you will have enough unwrecked holidays to last you a lifetime. --Charles Moore, The Daily Telegraph, October 6, 2009
A wonderfully idiosyncratic and intelligent selection of locations. Lycett Green brings a huge breadth of knowledge to her topics.
Each location is beautifully illustrated with colour photographs, and this is a book bulging with delights. Lycett Green writes particularly evocatively about kipper smokehouses in Northumberland, the dilapidated beauty of Southend-on-Sea, the surprising delights of shopping in Holt and the memory of industry in Stoke-on-Trent.
--Clover Stroud, The Sunday Telegraph, November 5, 2009
A wonderfully idiosyncratic and intelligent selection of locations. Lycett Green brings a huge breadth of knowledge to her topics.
Each location is beautifully illustrated with colour photographs, and this is a book bulging with delights. Lycett Green writes particularly evocatively about kipper smokehouses in Northumberland, the dilapidated beauty of Southend-on-Sea, the surprising delights of shopping in Holt and the memory of industry in Stoke-on-Trent.
--Clover Stroud, The Sunday Telegraph, November 5, 2009
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Candida Lycett Green has been writing the 'Unwrecked England' column in The Oldie magazine since its launch in 1992. In her column she takes the reader on a journey through every county and reveals, often in little-known backwaters, just how wonderful England still is. Unwrecked England (Oldie Publications, 2009) gathers together one hundred of her favourite places.
Described by Country Life as 'the finest writer of our time on the English countryside.' Candida continues in the tradition of her late father, John Betjeman. Her selection includes towns, villages, churches, valleys, woods, hills, houses, gardens, and more. A few places are well known, such as Ely Cathedral and White Horse Hill, but most are less obvious - Bredwardine in Herefordshire or Wooler in Northumberland, for example. Candida's passion for England is unabated, and the setting of each place is described in stunning detail.
The book is beautifully illustrated with colour photographs, including many by Christopher Simon Sykes.
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I read the regular articles written by Candida for The Oldie and always enjoy them and the accompanying photographs. This was a present for an aunt who takes regular holidays in the UK, and she was thrilled by it
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i bought this as a birthday present for my dad, as he had apparently watched a related tv program and wanted the book. dad loves the book, but did comment there were a couple of small errors in it - the name of the chrch mentioned in it that is local to him! either way he really enjoyed it!
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UNWRECKED ENGLAND,
This review is from: Unwrecked England (Hardcover)
Excellent desciptions and photographs on interesting but not necessarily well known location across the country.
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