Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Jennings, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349112304 ISBN 13: 9780349112305

Verlag: Abacus, 2001

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Book by Jennings Charles

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An ideal souvenir for any visitor wanting a straightforward account of the place's development from fishing village to backdrop to the Dome (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

Charles Jennings's engaging history explores how "a draughty bend of the river at Greenwich" became a place of global importance...a rich tapestry of history. (OBSERVER)

His affection for the place is evident on every page... His book, easy and anecdotal in style is a reminder of why Greenwich, with its rich history, was an appropriate focus for our millennial attention. (SUNDAY TIMES)

Charles Jennings's book on Greenwich is the business- witty, erudite, readable... fascinating. (TIME OUT)

Jennings is blessed with a tremendous sense of humour and a gift for piercingly evocative prose (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

Jennings is a spry reporter and an effervescent writer (FINANCIAL TIMES)

One of the canniest social commentators in Britain today (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Reseña del editor:

There is probably not a London suburb with more intense historical connections, more diversity and more astonishing buildings and artefacts than Greenwich. There are sections on MARITIME GREENWICH - home of the Maritime museum and the CUTTY SARK; ROYAL GREENWICH - Greenwich Park was Henry VIII's favourite residence and where he met Anne Boelyn; SCIENTIFIC GREENWICH - home of the Royal Observatory and GMT and of course The Dome itself...

What's it going to be like compared to similar vast jamborees - the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Festival Britain of 1951, what is that strange fabric stretched over those yellow spikes and WHO is going to settle in the 1400-home Millennium Village, to be opened in 2000, with the remains of the old gasworks lying a couple of feet below?

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Abacus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0349112304
• ISBN 13: 9780349112305
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256