A noble thing - Merlin Waterson
the National Trust and its benefactors
KORTE INHOUD
A new book shedding light on the motives of some of the National Trust's most important donors, illustrated throughout with rare and unusual illustrations.
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2011, 336pp, Illustrated. Cloth, with dust jacket. 1,6kg. In very good condition. Pakketzending. During the twentieth century there was an unprecedented and largely unforeseen transfer of property in Britain from private ownership into the hands of a single charitable institution, the National Trust. In 1945 the Trust owned 112,000 acres and had a membership of 7,850. Fifty years later, when celebrating its centenary, it had a membership of 2 million and the area of land it owned had increased more than fiv...
