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Adventures on the High Teas : In Search of Middle England by Stuart Maconie (2010, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherEbury Publishing

ISBN-100091926513

ISBN-139780091926519

eBay Product ID (ePID)92509944

Product Key Features

Book TitleAdventures on the High Teas : in Search of Middle England

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2010

TopicSocial History, Essays & Travelogues, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Great Britain

GenreTravel, History

AuthorStuart Maconie

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight8.5 Oz

Item Length4.9 in

Item Width7.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsAdventures on the High Teas is magnificent: sprawling in its research, illuminating, quirky, saddening, fun, often angry and always intensely readable.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal914.20486

SynopsisEveryone talks about 'Middle England'. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village in summer twilight. But just where and what is Middle England? Stuart Maconie didn't know either, so he packed his Thermos and sandwiches and set off to find out... Is Middle England about tradition and decency or closed minds and bigotry? Is it maypoles and evensong, or flooded market towns and binge drinkers in the park? And is Slough really as bad as Ricky Gervais and John Betjeman make out? From Shakespeare to JK Rowling, Vaughan Williams to Craig David, William Morris to B&Q, Stuart Maconie leads the expedition, with plenty of stop-offs for tea and scones, to discover the truth., Everyone talks about "Middle England." Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village in summer twilight. But just where and what is Middle England? Stuart Maconie didn't know either, so he packed his Thermos and sandwiches and set off to find out. Is Middle England about tradition and decency or closed minds and bigotry? Is it maypoles and evensong, or flooded market towns and binge drinkers in the park? And is Slough really as bad as Ricky Gervais and John Betjeman make out? From Shakespeare to JK Rowling, Vaughan Williams to Craig David, William Morris to B&Q, Stuart Maconie leads the expedition--with plenty of stop-offs for tea and scones--to discover the truth.

LC Classification NumberDA632