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Engel's England: Thirty-Nine Counties, One Capital and One Man
Matthew Engel
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Description for Engel's England: Thirty-Nine Counties, One Capital and One Man
Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 450.
England, says Matthew Engel, is the most complicated place in the world. And, as he travels through each of the historic English counties, he discovers that's just the start of it. Every county is fascinating, the product of a millennium or more of history: still a unique slice of a nation that has not quite lost its ancient diversity. He finds the well-dressers of Derbyshire and the pyromaniacs of Sussex; the Hindus and huntsmen of Leicestershire; the goddess-worshippers of Somerset. He tracks down the real Lancashire, hedonistic Essex, and the most mysterious house in Middlesex. In Durham he goes straight from choral evensong to the dog track. As he seeks out the essence of each county - from Yorkshire's broad acres to the microdot of Rutland - Engel always finds the unexpected . Engel's England is a totally original look at a confused country: a guidebook for people who don't think they need a guidebook. It is always quirky, sometimes poignant and often extremely funny.
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846685729
SKU
V9781846685729
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99-50
About Matthew Engel
Matthew Engel is a journalist and author. He has written for the Guardian and Financial Times, among other publications, and was the editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for twelve years. His books include Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain and Extracts from the Red Notebooks.
Reviews for Engel's England: Thirty-Nine Counties, One Capital and One Man
Wry, rueful, funny, packed with knowledge, and, like all good reporting, entirely personal and subjective, it is simply the most enjoyable commentary on today's England that could be imagined.
Sunday Times
The book is a triumph and deserves an audience far beyond those infatuated with the clickety-clack of steel wheels
Independent
... quirky three year quest for the essence of England. If you could bottle his wit, it would taste as sharp, rich and savoury as Worcestershire sauce on a Cornish pasty stuffed to bursting.
Ian Finlayson
Times
Highly personal and very funny
London Review of Books
[Engel] has managed to do the seemingly impossible and find a new way to write about England... The great pleasure in the book - for Engel as much as the reader - is in his love of the entertaining factual nugget
Michael Prodger
Financial Times
Engel has the perfect light, humorous touch for the task.
New Statesman
Immensely enjoyable... Engel is a wonderfully wry comic writer.
Ian Samson
The Guardian
Sunday Times
The book is a triumph and deserves an audience far beyond those infatuated with the clickety-clack of steel wheels
Independent
... quirky three year quest for the essence of England. If you could bottle his wit, it would taste as sharp, rich and savoury as Worcestershire sauce on a Cornish pasty stuffed to bursting.
Ian Finlayson
Times
Highly personal and very funny
London Review of Books
[Engel] has managed to do the seemingly impossible and find a new way to write about England... The great pleasure in the book - for Engel as much as the reader - is in his love of the entertaining factual nugget
Michael Prodger
Financial Times
Engel has the perfect light, humorous touch for the task.
New Statesman
Immensely enjoyable... Engel is a wonderfully wry comic writer.
Ian Samson
The Guardian