History and Landscape by Lydia Greeves

History and Landscape by Lydia Greeves

The Guide has been described as the National Trust's bible - and indeed it is. This latest edition takes a larger, squarer format, to do full justice to the Trust's illustrious collection of colour photographs, and to showcase recent acquisitions such as the Gothic wonder of Tyntesfield, John Lennon's childhood home Mendips, and William Morris' Arts and Crafts Red House. Magnificent landscapes, including the breathtaking coast of Cornwall, Snowdonia, the Peak District, and the lunar scenery of Strangford Lough, are set beside the Trust's great gardens such as Sissinghurst Castle in Kent and Stourhead Landscape Garden in Wiltshire. The Trust's country houses of course feature in all their varied beauty - from the Tudor splendour of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire through to the magnificent Victoriana at Cragside in Northumberland. Not everything is on such a grand scale; Lydia Greeves describes T.E. Lawrence's modest cottage at Clouds Hill in Dorset, a spade mill in Northern Ireland and even a duck decoy at Boarstall in Buckinghamshire.

The National Trust is the greatest of all British inventions and this guide is the best possible tribute to that inventionIt is lively, literate and beautifully illustrated. Go nowhere without it!" - Sir Simon Jenkins "

Lydia Greeves is a writer and editor known for her writing on Britain's cultural heritage. She is the author of The Good Country House Guide. Country Cottages, The Harrods Guide to London and Exmoor and Dartmoor. She lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9781905400133
ISBN 10	1905400136
Title	History and Landscape
Author	Lydia Greeves
Series	National Trust History And Heritage
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2006-02-03
Number of pages	448
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