Picture book of Britain in colour I-II.

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PICTURE BOOK OF BRITAIN IN COLOUR Volumes I and II This volume combines the First and Second Country Life Picture Books of Britain in Colour. Among the 106 photographs practically every county is represented and every aspect of Britain shown. They rangé from Cornwall and Devon to Skye and Ross and Cromarty, from Pembrokeshire and Caernarvonshire to Norfolk and Suffolk. They include mighty London and tiny village, great country house and humble thatclied cottage, mountain, laké, river and seasliore. They are taken by the country's fiiiest landscape photograpliers. Nearly all the pictures are of identifiable places which may be familiar to somé readers and may make other readers wisli to go there. There are places of natural beauty, such as the Seven Sisters, near Eastbourne, Rydal Water and Derwentwater in the Laké District, Helvellyn and Snowdon, Land's End, the Sussex Downs and the moors of Yorkshire's Whernside. There are places of man-made beauty - Wells, Durham and other sublime... Tovább

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PICTURE BOOK OF BRITAIN IN COLOUR Volumes I and II This volume combines the First and Second Country Life Picture Books of Britain in Colour. Among the 106 photographs practically every county is represented and every aspect of Britain shown. They rangé from Cornwall and Devon to Skye and Ross and Cromarty, from Pembrokeshire and Caernarvonshire to Norfolk and Suffolk. They include mighty London and tiny village, great country house and humble thatclied cottage, mountain, laké, river and seasliore. They are taken by the country's fiiiest landscape photograpliers. Nearly all the pictures are of identifiable places which may be familiar to somé readers and may make other readers wisli to go there. There are places of natural beauty, such as the Seven Sisters, near Eastbourne, Rydal Water and Derwentwater in the Laké District, Helvellyn and Snowdon, Land's End, the Sussex Downs and the moors of Yorkshire's Whernside. There are places of man-made beauty - Wells, Durham and other sublime catliedrals, Stirling and Windsor Castles, Cotswold villages like Bourton-on-the-Water and Castle Combé, Trinity College, Cambridge, and London's St Jarnes's Park, the Clifton Suspension Bridge, and H.M.S. Victory at her last ancliorage in Portsmouth Harbour. The countryside is shown at all seasons of the year: daffodils at Lesnes Abbey in Kent and primroses near Cowfold in Sussex; a tulip field near Spalding in Lincolnshire and roses in Regent's Park; summer holiday time on the coasts of the West Country; the reds and browns and russets of autumn in Scotland and Surrey and Epping Forest; the boys of King's College choir scliool walking across the snow to sing in their incomparable cliapel. And in addition to the photographs taken on the ground, there are a number taken from the air, giving fresli interest to familiar scenes. Vissza