Gentle slopes, rough coasts, and broad horizons, salty marshes and lavender, sugar beet and rose gardens--this is East Anglia, a landscape of huge open skies which has been a temptation to every invader and every get-rich-quick merchant in history; and with Constable, Gainsborough, and many others, it has been home to some of the most quintessentially English painting and building. Peter Sager takes us all over Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, from prehistoric flint mines to Hi-Tech architecture, from the philosophy of John ...
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Gentle slopes, rough coasts, and broad horizons, salty marshes and lavender, sugar beet and rose gardens--this is East Anglia, a landscape of huge open skies which has been a temptation to every invader and every get-rich-quick merchant in history; and with Constable, Gainsborough, and many others, it has been home to some of the most quintessentially English painting and building. Peter Sager takes us all over Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, from prehistoric flint mines to Hi-Tech architecture, from the philosophy of John Locke to the detective stories of Dorothy L. Sayers, from the music of Benjamin Britten to the races at Newmarket.
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Add this copy of East Anglia to cart. $24.12, very good condition, Sold by Yare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Great Yarmouth, NORFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2002 by Pallas Athene.
Add this copy of East Anglia: Essex, Suffolk & Norfolk (Pallas Guides) to cart. $49.01, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Pallas Athene.
