Review: A Unique England Travel Guide
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2012
I love this book!  It's wonderfully written and amazingly useful.The book shows you the England of Jane Austin, with tours, links, and anecdotes from her books and her life.  I'm not much of a Jane Austin fan, although I do think I saw one of her books in movie form.  What I do love are books that show me the world from a different point of view.  It's easy to get some online guidebook to talk about the castles and villages in England, but they don't provide context or story.With this book, even though I know little about Jane Austin, I'll be able to have a grand adventure touring England and getting a more realistic perspective on what I am seeing.  It turns yet another castle or village into a snippet of life from a bygone era, a new way of understanding history and the forces that shape our world.I'm definitely going to buy it for my sister who loves Jane Austin.  I think even if she isn't planning a trip soon, she'll love reading through it, clicking on the links and going on an armchair tour of Jane Austin's England.I'm looking forward to exploring England with this book, and I hope this is the first in a series.  I hope the next one is on the Loire Valley!