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ISBN10: 0711230536, ISBN13: 9780711230538, [publisher: Frances Lincoln] Hardcover Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 1.85 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2009]
ISBN10: 0711230536, ISBN13: 9780711230538, [publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom] Softcover EEL PIE ISLAND is the only inhabited island on the semi-tidal Thames. Its most famous contemporary resident, Trevor Baylis, OBE, inventor of the clockwork radio, has been heard to describe it (with some exaggeration) as "120 drunks clinging to a mudbank". It is a tiny place, just 600 yards long and barely 150 at its widest, but it has nearly fifty houses, some twenty houseboats, two boatyards and a score of small businesses and craft studios, two boating clubs and a nature reserve at each end, and it is connected to the rest of the world by an elegant footbridge. Named for the favoured snack of Henry VIII, who was said to stop here on his way to and from Windsor, the island has enjoyed two periods of special fame: in the nineteenth century it was a resort for Londoners who, like Charles Dickens, came by the newfangled steamboats to spend the day in the grounds of the hotel that dominated the island until 1969; and in the middle of the twentieth it was a venue for jazz and later English R&B groups, where the likes of Chris Barber or George Melly, and then the Rolling Stones or Rod Stewart, performed in the dancehall of the hotel. A surprising number of people all over Britain and beyond remember Eel Pie Island and its gigs - usually with a nostalgic smile. Dan van der Vat and Michele Whitby tell the story of Eel Pie Island from the Stone Age to The Roll ...
ISBN10: 0711230536, ISBN13: 9780711230538, [publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom] Softcover EEL PIE ISLAND is the only inhabited island on the semi-tidal Thames. Its most famous contemporary resident, Trevor Baylis, OBE, inventor of the clockwork radio, has been heard to describe it (with some exaggeration) as "120 drunks clinging to a mudbank". It is a tiny place, just 600 yards long and barely 150 at its widest, but it has nearly fifty houses, some twenty houseboats, two boatyards and a score of small businesses and craft studios, two boating clubs and a nature reserve at each end, and it is connected to the rest of the world by an elegant footbridge. Named for the favoured snack of Henry VIII, who was said to stop here on his way to and from Windsor, the island has enjoyed two periods of special fame: in the nineteenth century it was a resort for Londoners who, like Charles Dickens, came by the newfangled steamboats to spend the day in the grounds of the hotel that dominated the island until 1969; and in the middle of the twentieth it was a venue for jazz and later English R&B groups, where the likes of Chris Barber or George Melly, and then the Rolling Stones or Rod Stewart, performed in the dancehall of the hotel. A surprising number of people all over Britain and beyond remember Eel Pie Island and its gigs - usually with a nostalgic smile. Dan van der Vat and Michele Whitby tell the story of Eel Pie Island from the Stone Age to The Roll ...
ISBN10: 0711230536, ISBN13: 9780711230538, [publisher: Frances Lincoln] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.85 [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2009]
Frances Lincoln 2009 Hardcover HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
ISBN10: 0711230536, ISBN13: 9780711230538, [publisher: Frances Lincoln] Hardcover HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized. [Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2009]
ISBN10: 0711230536, ISBN13: 9780711230538, [publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited] Hardcover First Edition Sq. 4to. Publisher's blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Scuffed to foot of board edges. In near fine dust jacket. *** Lavishly illustrated history of Eel Pie Island - "the New Orleans of England". [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. ISBN 0711230536 9780711230538 [US]
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