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Cargando... The Green Road Into the Trees: An Exploration of Englandpor Hugh Thomson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. In theory this should have been right up my street, or, indeed, right up my country footpath. And bits of it were delightful. However, all too often the delightful was subsumed under a mass of prejudice, stereotyping, name dropping and self pity that made this a lot less enjoyable than it should have been. After returning from a trip to Peru, he has a fit of wanderlust and sets out to travel across England following the Ickneild way, an ancient route that crosses England diagonally from the Dorset coast to the Wash. There are some fascinating sights along this route, some of them he explores, some of them he uses a s jumping off point for some irrelevant rant. His conversations with people he meets are a mixture of unrelated and repetitive but mostly just plain grumpy. This should have been a lovely book, a hymn to the English countryside and its history. At it's best it is all of these things, but it is dragged down by the unnecessary side shows. I cannot recommend it, but note it does have a beautiful cover. A disappointing book. An experienced travel writer looking for a subject. He walks along the Ickneild Way across southern England. And what he comes up with is a series of Googled-historical description of some of the sites he comes across plus a few personal reminisences and a few grumpy old man complaints about the state of the country. A lazy book with little point to it. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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WINNER OF THE 2014 THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE In the past, Hugh Thomson has written acclaimed books about Peru, Mexico and the Indian Himalaya. Now he returns to the most exotic and foreign country of them all - his own. Walking right across England, along ancient trackways and green grass roads, Hugh explores the way the country was and the way it is today- the legends, literature and natural world that define us, and the undercurrent of regret running throughout our history; what he calls 'the unicorn disappearing into the trees'. From coast-to-coast and through the heart of the countryside, he shows how older,forgotten cultures like the Celts, Saxons and Vikings lie much closer to the surface than we may think. It is a journey enriched and partly told by the characters he meets along the way. By taking it, Hugh casts unexpected light - and humour - on the way we live now. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)914.1048612History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Europe British Isles, UK, Great Britain, Scotland, Ireland Travel 1837- Victoria & Windsors 2000- 2000-2019 2010-2019Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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He starts in Abbotsbury in Dorset, at the far end of the Fleet, and crosses Dorset and Wiltshire continually passing hill forts, barrows, mound, stone circles and other glimpses of prehistoric and bronze age life in this country. The journey takes him across the country to Norfolk where he end his walk at the place where Seahenge was excavated from.
I quite enjoyed it, as it combined some of my favourite subjects, history and travel, and the writing is effortless to read. He also looks back at his life, following a painful divorce, and of friends past, and journeys traveled. I think that took a little away from the essence of the book, but still glad I have read it. ( )