About Britain: A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles

by Tim Cole

Book Overview

A charming new travelogue retracing the thirteen original routes of the 1951 Festival of Britain guides "About Britain"

About Britain is an entirely fresh approach to travel writing. In 1951, the Festival of Britain published a series of thirteen short guides that they dubbed 'handbooks for the explorer'. Their aim was to get people on 'the roads and the by-roads' to see Britain as a 'living country'. Armed with these guidebooks,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472937260
• ISBN13: 9781472937261
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.7" x 8.9"