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'A fascinating attempt to find the sources of Englishness . . . Well-crafted, reflective and quite personal, The Last Wolf is also original and deeply researched' Robert McCrum, Guardian

What sort of a place is England? And who are the English? As the United Kingdom turns away from its European neighbours and begins to look increasingly disunited at home, it is becoming necessary to ask what England has that is singular and its own. In The Last Wolf, Robert Winder spins an English tale. Travelling the country, he looks for its hidden springs not in royal pageantry or politics, but in landscape and history.

'Winder is at his best when tracing how one thing became another. His excellent description of the rise of Lancashire's enormous cotton industry triggers a discussion of the slave trade and English morality . . . fascinating twists and turns' The Times

'[Winder] weaves a fabulous tale of wolves and sheep, water and coal, rain and agriculture, industry and architecture, pinpointing qualities that grew out of our landscape' Independent i

'A fascinating attempt to find the sources of Englishness . . . Well-crafted, reflective and quite personal, The Last Wolf is also original and deeply researched' Robert McCrum, Guardian

What sort of a place is England? And who are the English? As the United Kingdom turns away from its European neighbours and begins to look increasingly disunited at home, it is becoming necessary to ask what England has that is singular and its own. In The Last Wolf, Robert Winder spins an English tale. Travelling the country, he looks for its hidden springs not in royal pageantry or politics, but in landscape and history.

'Winder is at his best when tracing how one thing became another. His excellent description of the rise of Lancashire's enormous cotton industry triggers a discussion of the slave trade and English morality . . . fascinating twists and turns' The Times

'[Winder] weaves a fabulous tale of wolves and sheep, water and coal, rain and agriculture, industry and architecture, pinpointing qualities that grew out of our landscape' Independent i

Über den Autor
Robert Winder was literary editor of the INDEPENDENT for 5 years. He has written three novels, No Admission, The Marriage of Time and Convenienceand The Final Act of Mr. Shakespeare. Winder is also the author of three works of nonfiction, Bloody Foreigners, Open Secrets and The Last Wolf.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780349141862
ISBN-10: 034914186X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Winder, Robert
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 126 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Robert Winder
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.05.2018
Gewicht: 0,378 kg
Artikel-ID: 111240418

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