Derek Turner

Edge of England (eBook, ePUB)

Landfall in Lincolnshire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Lincolnshire is England's second-largest countyand one of the least well-known. Yet its understated chronicles, unfashionable towns and undervalued countryside conceal fascinating stories, and unique landscapes: its Wolds are lonely and beautiful, its towns characterful; its marshlands and dynamic coast are metaphors of constant change. From plesiosaurs to Puritans, medieval ghosts to eighteenth-century explorers, poets to politicians, and Vikings to Brexit, this marginal county is central to England's identity.

Canute, Henry IV, John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford all called Lincolnshire home. So did saints, world-famed churchmen and reformersEtheldreda, Gilbert, Guthlac and Hugh, Robert Grosseteste, John Wycliffe, John Cotton, John Foxe and John Wesleyas well as Isaac Newton, Joseph Banks, John Harrison and George Boole. Lincolnshire explorers went everywhere: John Smith to Jamestown, George Bass and Matthew Flinders to Australia, and John Franklin to a bitter death in the Arctic. Artists and writers have been inspiredincluding Byrd, Taverner, Stukeley, Stubbs, Eliot and Tennysonwhile Thatcher wrought neo-liberalism. Extraordinary architecture testifies to centuries of both settlement and unrest, from Saxon towers to sky-piercing spires; evocative ruined abbeys to the wonder of the Cathedral. And in between is always the little-known land itselfan epitome of England, awaiting discovery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787388871
• Artikelnr.: 64275106

Autorenporträt

Derek Turner (derek-turner.com) is an Irish-born, Lincolnshire-resident novelist and reviewer. He has written for The Economist, The Spectator, The Times, The Daily Mail, The Irish Times, Country Life, Literary Review and The Lady; his poetry has appeared in Quadrant. This book draws on twenty years exploring and reading about Lincolnshire