Discovery Of The Peak District - Trevor Brighton
From Hades To Elysium
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Discovery Of The Peak District is een boek van Trevor Brighton. Deze editie wordt tweedehands aangeboden door 1 boekverkoper(s) uit Heerlen. Voor meer info, bekijk de beschrijving van de beschikbare exemplaren verder op deze pagina.
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2004Uitgever: Phillimore & Company242 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1860773141ISBN-13: 9781860773143Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2004, 242pp. Illustrated. Cloth, with dust jacket. In very good condition. The Peak District was an area viewed with fear and foreboding for a thousand years. Largely impenetrable to the traveller, it was called a 'howling wilderness' by Defoe. Its few inhabitants were uncouth and the last troglodytes in England. Their guttural dialect was barely intelligible and their fondness for drink was renowned and repellent. Since Saxon times the Peak was associated with evil and the abode of the devil was located in...
