Rural Britain Then & Now
Subtitle: A Celebration of the British Countryside Featuring Photographs from the Francis Frith Collection
Contributors: Simon Jenkins (Foreword)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
Published: August 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781844034222
Subjects: British & Irish history: from c 1900 -; NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Photographs: collections; Social history; Modern - 20th Century; History; History - General History; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Subjects & Themes - Landscapes; Europe - Great Britain - General; Subjects & Themes - Travel - World/Great Britain; BG-JUVENILE PROP - BG-JUVY NON-FICTION; History / Great Britain; Europe - Ireland
First sentence: Britain was born out of the countryside; from hills and fields, streams and mountains, moors and downs, fens and forests: places where nature's architecture and man's industry have, over millennia, combined.