E-raamat: Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History

"Filled with curiosities. Ambitious, with a tinge of eccentricity and perfectly grown-up enough to sustain the occasional disagreement, this is a rich pleasure of a book." -- Philip Hensher - The Spectator "Careful research is mixed with an aptly freewheeling approach, allowing the reader to experience the past as an adventure powered as much by accident as incident. Rarely does history feel so beguiling." -- The Observer "This is a book as much about the experience of history as history itself. Learned and likeable." -- Sunday Times "If youd like a linear kings and battles history go elsewhere as Robb is more interested in overlooked details, coincidences and accidents of history and digging up evidence that questions or subverts what weve all been taught to think about this country. Mind-blowing. He has the superb ability of taking a single off-kilter subject (say, boarding schools and playing cricket) and widening it out to illuminate something much larger." -- Shortlist "A dazzling and dizzyingly wonderful roam through Britains past. This is history writing as youve never read it before." -- Jack Cornish, author of The Lost Paths "Rediscovers Britains past in unexpected ways, melding memory and observation with history and geography." -- Brian Groom, author of Made in Manchester "Graham Robb tumbles into British history with an infectious enthusiasm. Immensely entertaining." -- Chris Bryant, author of The Glamour Boys