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I Never Knew That About England by: Christopher Winn List Price: £9.99 City Travel Guides Price: £6.94 You Save: £3.05 (31%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 942 EAN: 9780091902070 ISBN: 009190207X Label: Ebury Press Manufacturer: Ebury Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: April 07, 2005 Publisher: Ebury Press Studio: Ebury Press Sales Rank: 3100 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Very interesting but a bit disappointed at first glance...Just got this as a Christmas present for someone, and looking through, it makes a very interesting read, with lots of unusual and entertaining nuggets of information and facts. The illustrations are good too. However I was a bit disappointed to find 3 mistakes in the space of as many pages when I looked at my own local area (Suffolk), which could have been corrected by anyone with Google and an extra 30 seconds to check each one... It was Sir Robert Watson-Watt who was instrumental in the development of RADAR at Bawdsey just before WW2 (not Robin), it's the River Deben (not Debden), and Grimston Hall is in Trimley St Martin (not the adjacent parish of Trimley St Mary). Which just makes me slightly question the veracity of the rest ... Read More: Rating:  - Informative - obscure facts about EnglandWhat a great read . Loads of interesting,obscure & little known facts about England. There is a section on each English county & some of the towns & cities therein. The book covers each county's "claims to fame" (many of which were unknown to me - really interesting & enlightening) along with other fascinating historical snippets. Dip in & out or read straight through, either way it's an entertaining & informative book. It's the kind of book they must get pub quiz questions from !! As the previous reviewer points out,a really excellent stocking filler - real value & a true "find" . Top quality. Rating: - This is what makes England so specialI found this book to be a brilliant stocking filler, a really good 'toilet' read. I flicked through it at first, searching for locations from my childhood and teens, such as places I had visited on family holidays, etc. However, after an initial trawl I read it over a period of about 36 hours. There is not a place in England that doesn't have some obscure fact related to it. A bloody good book, highly recommended. |
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