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One Fine Day
- A Journey Through English Time
Engelsk Hardback
One Fine Day
- A Journey Through English Time
Engelsk Hardback

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From one of the great chroniclers of our times and our land - the author of Parallel Lines, A Hero for High Times and The Longest Crawl - comes a career-defining book. This is the story of Ian Marchant''s great (x7) grandfather, Thomas Marchant who left a detailed diary from 1714 to 1728. Life-loving Thomas - who liked a drink and game of cards - feels recognisably Marchant to Ian. Thomas wrote about his family farm and fishponds; about dung, horses and mud, and about the making and drinking of cider. But, as Ian discovers, he was also a Fifteener, a Jacobite sympathiser determined to bring down the monarchy. Ian Marchant tells the story of uncovering a new relative and digs deep into the daily life and political concerns of the 1720s. By exploring the Marchant family''s journey - and how their England (rainy, muddy, politically turbulent and illness ridden) became the England of 2021, Marchant discovers just how much we have to learn from our ancestors. By turns funny, lyrical, moving and illuminating, this is a conversation with the dead to find what is still alive. A conversation between a world that stood on the brink of industrialisation and a world that is now exhausted by it.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781912836994
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1912836998
Udg. Dato:
6 apr 2023
Længde:
39mm
Bredde:
224mm
Højde:
149mm
Forlag:
Duckworth Books
Oplagsdato:
6 apr 2023
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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