Landmarks of Britain: The Five Hundred Places That Made Our History
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"Landmarks of Britain"is the history of the nation, told through the places where it actually happened. Each of the landmarks that Clive Aslet describes tells the story of a great event or figure, and the effect is a sweeping panorama of history, encompassing battlefields, cathedrals, palaces, andplaces linked with great events in the worlds of science, literature, architecture, religion, espionage, sport, agriculture, and industry. Sites include those associated with the discovery of vaccination and penicillin, the splitting of the atom, the writing of the "Messiah, " "Paradise Lost, " and "On the Origin of Species, " the coinage of the phrase "Anno Domini" and of the equals sign, the smashing of the four-minute mile, and thelanding places of the rats that brought the Black Death."
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0340735104
ISBN13:9780340735107
Release Date:October 2005
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Length:547 Pages
Weight:2.64 lbs.
Dimensions:2.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"
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