Shadowlands (eBook)

Matthew Green (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022 | 1. Auflage
320 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-33804-7 (ISBN)

Infos

THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands. 'A beautiful book, truly original . . . It is a marvellous achievement.' IAN MORTIMER, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England 'Well researched, beautifully written and packed with interesting detail.' CLAIRE TOMALIN Historian Matthew Green travels across Britain to tell the forgotten history of our lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages. Revealing the extraordinary stories of how these places met their fate - and exploring how they have left their mark on our landscape and our imagination - Shadowlands is a deeply evocative and dazzlingly original account of Britain's past. 'An exquisitely written, moving and elegiac exploration.' SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB 'Consistently interesting . . . Green's passion and historical vision bursts from the page, summoning up the past in surround sound and sensual prose.' CAL FLYN, THE TIMES(author of Islands of Abandonment) 'An eloquent tour of lost communities.' PD SMITH, GUARDIAN 'A haunting, lyrical tour around the lost places of Britain.' CHARLOTTE HIGGINS, author of Under Another Sky 'A miraculous work of resurrection, stinging in a perpetual present'. IAIN SINCLAIR, author of The Gold Machine 'Beautifully written.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Startling.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Splendid.' THE HERALD 'Compelling.' HISTORY TODAY 'Excellent.' THE SPECTATOR 'Fascinating.' DAILY MAIL 'Accomplished.' CAUGHT BY THE RIVER 'Outstanding.' MIRROR

Dr Matthew Green is a historian, writer and broadcaster with a doctorate from Oxford University. He has appeared in documentaries on the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, and has written historical features for the Guardian and Financial Times. He is the founder of Unreal City Audio, which produces immersive tours of London as live events, podcasts and apps. He is the author of London: A Travel Guide Through Time and Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Schlagworte: archaeology • A Time Traveller's Gide to Medieval England, Ian Mortimer • Britain's Ghost Towns • British History, Local History, Archaeology, Travelogue, Popular History • climate change, global warming, erosion, social shifts, extreme weather events, maps, technological progress • Climate Change, Global Warming, Social Shifts, Changing Maps, Extreme Weather, Technological Progress • Hidden Histories, Mary-Ann Ochota • local history, history, medieval history, neolithic history, British history, Welsh history, Scottish history, English history, military history, archaeology, the Black Death, the plague, lost history, lost places, vanished places, vanished London, ancient ruins, ruins • Matthew Green, London: A Travel Guide Through Time, Unreal City Audio • norman davies • Norman Davies’ Vanished Kingdoms, Iain Mortimer’s A Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, Charlotte Higgins’ Under Another Sky, Graham Robb’s The Ancient Paths, Philip Marsden’s The Summer Isles, Mary-Ann Ochota’s Hidden Histories, Robert MacFarlane, Iain Sinclair, Kathleen Jamie • Robert Macfarlane • Skara Brae, Neolithic Orkney, Trellech, Old Winchelsea East Sussex, Tusmore (Oxfordshire), Wharram Percy (Yorkshire Wolds), Dunwich, Britain’s lost Atlantis, St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Norfolk, Capel Celyn • The Ancient Paths, Graham Robb • The Old Ways • Under Another Sky, Charlotte Higgins • Underland • vanished kingdoms • Vanished Kingdoms, Norman Davies
• ISBN-10: 0-571-33804-6 / 0571338046
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33804-7 / 9780571338047