Britain by the Book: A Curious Tour of our Literary Landscape [Audiobook] download free by Oliver Tearle
- Listen audiobook: Britain by the Book: A Curious Tour of our Literary Landscape
- Author: Oliver Tearle
- Release date: 2019/9/13
- Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781473666016
- Rating: 8.61 of 10
- Votes: 154
- Review by: Soren Correa
- Review rating: 8.11 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/13
- Duration: 2H59M33S in 256 kbps (48 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-13
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, ATRAC, MP3, WAV, MPEG-4 DST, FLAC, WMA, AAC (compression ZIP, TAR, TAR.LZO, RAR, ARC)
- Total pages original book: 240
- Includes a PDF summary of 22 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 16M26S (4.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: What caused Dickens to leap out of bed one night and walk 30 miles from London to Kent?How did a small town on the Welsh borders become the second-hand bookshop capital of the world?Why did a jellyfish persuade Evelyn Waugh to abandon his suicide attempt in North Wales? A multitude of curious questions are answered in Britain by the Book, a fascinating travelogue with a literary theme, taking in unusual writers' haunts and the surprising places that inspired some of our favourite fictional locations. We'll learn why Thomas Hardy was buried twice, how a librarian in Manchester invented the thesaurus as a means of coping with depression, and why Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 during the Second World War. The map of Britain that emerges is one dotted with interesting literary stories and bookish curiosities.
- Other categories, genre or collection: British & Irish History, Literature: History & Criticism, Literary Companions, Travel Writing, Guidebooks
- Download servers: Torrents.me, MEGA, Robust Files, Google Drive, Filedropper, Mediafire, Dropbox, FileServe, Torrent. Compressed in ZIP, TAR, TAR.LZO, RAR, ARC
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 20.57 USD
- Dimensions: 148x223x24mm
- Weight: 366g
- Printed by: John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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