Nairn's London

2015-04-02 Travel

Author : Ian Nairn
Release : 2015-04-02
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 164/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Nairn's London written by Ian Nairn. This book was released on 2015-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.' Nairn's London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation on a city and its buildings. Including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs, it is a portrait of the soul of a place, from a writer of genius.

Nairn's London

2014 Architecture

Author : Ian Nairn
Release : 2014
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 156/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Nairn's London written by Ian Nairn. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a subjective meditation on a city and its buildings including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs.

Nairn's Paris

2018-04-10 Travel

Author : Ian Nairn
Release : 2018-04-10
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 508/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Nairn's Paris written by Ian Nairn. This book was released on 2018-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50th Anniversary of original publication; this is a unique Paris guidebook from the late, great, architecture and travel writer Ian Nairn. Illustrated with the author's black and white snaps of the city, Nairn shows his eye for detail - whether it is stonework on an archway, shadows cast by a railing, or an empty chair in a Paris park, in this book which celebrates the City of Light. Nairn's Paris captures the city on the cusp of great changes and provides a glimpse of a city that is about to disappear. Here is an idiosyncratic and unpretentious portrait of the 'collective masterpiece' that is Paris. Introduced by writer and BBC presenter Andrew Hussey, author of the popular Paris: The Secret History. 'About one third of the book is discovery, in the sense that I came upon the sites by accident or by following a topographical hunch. There must be many more, and all you need for the search is the ability to turn off the main road, switch on your antennae and respond. Good luck.' - Ian Nairn

The Enchanted Glass

2011-11-07 Political Science

Author : Tom Nairn
Release : 2011-11-07
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book The Enchanted Glass written by Tom Nairn. This book was released on 2011-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed study of British statehood, identity and culture, Tom Nairn deftly dispels the conviction that the Royal Family is nothing more than an amusing relic of feudalism or a mere tourist attraction. Instead, he argues that the monarchy is both apex and essence of the British state, the symbol of a national backwardness. In this fully updated edition, Nairn’s powerful and bitterly comic prose lays bare Britain’s peculiar, pseudo-modern, national identity—which remains stubbornly fixated on the Crown and its constitutional framework, the “parliamentary sovereignty” of Westminster.

Britain's Changing Towns

1967 Architecture

Author : Ian Nairn
Release : 1967
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book Britain's Changing Towns written by Ian Nairn. This book was released on 1967. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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