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Riding Route 94
[Buy it!] | D. McKie | USD 4.98
(Wed May 29 01:19:14 2024) | Abebooks | Book Express (NZ) | ISBN10: 1910258342, ISBN13: 9781910258347, [publisher: Pimpernel Press Limited] Softcover 256 pages. Cover wornOn previous journeys through Britain, Da vid McKie headed for places he had heard of and was eager to see. But how true, how representative a picture of the country could that provide? What, he wondered, might happen if he let chance di ctate his itinerary? McKie decides to travel only where he was ta ken by buses with the number 94, stopping off along the way to vi sit often unexpected places. Chance also takes the form of unexpe cted encounters at the bus stop or stumbling across some fascinat ing slice of local history in a country churchyard. Eschewing suc h simplistic generalizations as the north-south divide, he noneth eless finds themes emerging: Why do some communities thrive and g row while others seem set on a course of inevitable decline--some times even communities living cheek by jowl? What kind of urban l andscape have we inherited from the post-war planners, whose best intentions too often took little account of how people actually want to live? And how much are our opportunities and expectations shaped by the communities we are born into? These buses will tak e David McKie across the idyllic Isle of Mull (where the driver p auses to let him drink in the view), to the furthest reaches of C ornwall (in England, but certainly not of England), through the p ost-industrial landscape of Middlesbrough, and to a whole host of places, some privileged, some bereft, some in-between. So get yo ur ticket from the driver and take your seat: you're about to dis cover that some of the most unexpected things in this ever-surpri sing country are to be glimpsed through the window of the number 94 bus.
[Wellington, New Zealand] [Publication Year: 2017] |
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The Encyclopedia of Eastern Mythology
[Buy it!] | Storm, Rachel | USD 73.96
(Wed May 29 01:19:14 2024) | Abebooks | GF Books, Inc. | ISBN10: 0754800695, ISBN13: 9780754800699, [publisher: Anness] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition. 0.66
[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999] |
