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The Coloured Counties: Literary Landscapes of the Heart of England

Hardback | English

By (author): Anthony Gibson

Anthony Gibson explores the counties of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and Gloucestershire, finding the places that inspired such writers as Laurie Lee, Robert Frost, George Eliot, AE Housman, Ivor Gurney, Mary Webb, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Bruce Chatwin, William Shakespeare, Richard Jefferies, Edward Thomas, Walter Scott, John Moore, Flora Thompson, Will Harvey, Matthew Arnold, Robert Bridges, Frank Mansell, John Drinkwater, JRR Tolkien, John Betjeman, John Masefield, Robert Graves, William Langland, Wilfred Owen, Dennis Potter, Winifred Foley, Rupert Brooke, Edmund Blunden, Thomas Hughes, GK Chesterton, Thomas Hardy, Fred Archer, Lascelles Abercrombie, Wilfrid Gibson, William Wordsworth, Arthur Quiller-Couch, WH Auden and Francis Kilvert. Featuring many colour photographs, extracts from the writers, recommended walks, even the best places to stop for a drink, the book is an uplifting journey for those who love both literature and the English countryside - and Anthony Gibson, with his appreciation of great writing and his farming background, is the perfect companion. See more
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  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 800g
  • Dimensions: 173 x 252mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Aug 2017
  • Publisher: Fairfield Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780956851185

About Anthony Gibson

Anthony Gibson was born in Devon in 1949 the eldest son of the broadcaster and cricket writer Alan Gibson. He read History at The Queen''s College Oxford and spent most of his working life with the National Farmers'' Union in the South West championing the cause of the region''s farming community. His first book ''Of Didcot and the Demon - The Cricketing Times of Alan Gibson'' was the MCC and Cricket Society''s Cricket Book of the Year for 2009. He has followed this with two volumes exploring the landscapes that have inspired great writing: ''With Magic in my Eyes'' about the south-western counties ''The Coloured Counties'' moving up into the heart of England.

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