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"In this fascinating and witty book, Harry Mount explains how our national characteristics - our sense of humour, our hobbies, our favourite foods and our behaviour with the opposite sex - are all defined by our nation's extraordinary geography, geology, climate and weather. You will learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; why the Midlands became the home of the British curry. It identifies the materials that make England, too: the faint pink Aberdeen granite of kerbstones; that precise English mix of air temperature, smell and light that hits you the moment you touch down at Heathrow." -- Provided by publisher
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How England Made the English, Harry Mount
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2012
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- (Copertina rigida)
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- Sottotitolo
- From Hedgerows to Heathrow
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Harry Mount
- Editore
- Penguin UK
- Pubblicato
- 2012
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 320
- ISBN10
- 0670919136
- ISBN13
- 9780670919130
- Serie
- Valutazione
- 3,3 su 5
- Descrizione
- "In this fascinating and witty book, Harry Mount explains how our national characteristics - our sense of humour, our hobbies, our favourite foods and our behaviour with the opposite sex - are all defined by our nation's extraordinary geography, geology, climate and weather. You will learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; why the Midlands became the home of the British curry. It identifies the materials that make England, too: the faint pink Aberdeen granite of kerbstones; that precise English mix of air temperature, smell and light that hits you the moment you touch down at Heathrow." -- Provided by publisher