The Great Escape Britain’s 400 – Year Love Affair with Holidays | 1.96 MB
Title: The Great Escape
Author: Annabelle Thorpe
Category: Nonfiction, Travel, Europe, Great Britain, History
Language: English | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0241764165
Description:
"A real heartwarming portrait of Britain and our love of time off. I couldn’t put it down." – Cathy Adams, The Times travel desk
"How we spend our time off tells us a lot about who we are – and Thorpe understands that." – Tom Chesshyre
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Discover how our favourite holiday traditions began in this entertaining and fascinating social history.
Holidays. We dream of them, plan them and savour every moment of them. But where did the concept of "the holiday" come from? How has it become so essential to who we are as Brits? And what does the future hold for our treasured time off?
In The Great Escape, travel journalist Annabelle Thorpe takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of British holidays – from the 18th-century spa break to the age of the global nomad – to answer all these questions and more. Travelling the length and breadth of Britain (with a detour to the Mediterranean), Annabelle…
"A real heartwarming portrait of Britain and our love of time off. I couldn’t put it down." – Cathy Adams, The Times travel desk
"How we spend our time off tells us a lot about who we are – and Thorpe understands that." – Tom Chesshyre
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Discover how our favourite holiday traditions began in this entertaining and fascinating social history.
Holidays. We dream of them, plan them and savour every moment of them. But where did the concept of "the holiday" come from? How has it become so essential to who we are as Brits? And what does the future hold for our treasured time off?
In The Great Escape, travel journalist Annabelle Thorpe takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of British holidays – from the 18th-century spa break to the age of the global nomad – to answer all these questions and more. Travelling the length and breadth of Britain (with a detour to the Mediterranean), Annabelle…
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