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Author : Ian Nairn
Release : 1967
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Britain's Changing Towns by : Ian Nairn
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:
Author : Ian Nairn
Release : 2015-04-02
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 164/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Nairn's London by : Ian Nairn
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.
Author : Ian Nairn
Release : 2018-04-10
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 508/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Nairn's Paris by : Ian Nairn
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
Author : Ian Nairn
Release : 2016-10
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Book Synopsis Nairn's Towns by : Ian Nairn
Download or read book Nairn's Towns written by Ian Nairn. This book was released on 2016-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Jackson
Release : 2019-11-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Northumbrians by : Dan Jackson
Download or read book The Northumbrians written by Dan Jackson. This book was released on 2019-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often misunderstood? In this wideranging new history of the people of North East England, Dan Jackson explores the deep roots of Northumbrian culture--hard work and heavy drinking, sociability and sentimentality, militarism and masculinity--in centuries of border warfare and dangerous and demanding work in industry, at sea and underground. He explains how the landscape and architecture of the North East explains so much about the people who have lived there, and how a 'Northumbrian Enlightenment' emerged from this most literate part of England, leading to a catalogue of inventions that changed the world, from the locomotive to the lightbulb. Jackson's Northumbrian journey reaches right to the present day, as this remarkable region finds itself caught between an indifferent south and a newly assertive Scotland. Covering everything from the Venerable Bede and the prince-bishops of Durham to Viz and Geordie Shore, this vital new history makes sense of a part of England facing an uncertain future, but whose people remain as distinctive as ever.
