Adventures on the High Teas

In Search of Middle England

Stuart Maconie (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2010
Ebury Press (Verlag)
978-0-09-192651-9 (ISBN)

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Everyone talks about 'Middle England'. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village in summer twilight. But just where and what is Middle England? Stuart Maconie didn't know either, so he packed his Thermos and sandwiches and set off to find out...

Is Middle England about tradition and decency or closed minds and bigotry? Is it maypoles and evensong, or flooded market towns and binge drinkers in the park? And is Slough really as bad as Ricky Gervais and John Betjeman make out? From Shakespeare to JK Rowling, Vaughan Williams to Craig David, William Morris to B&Q, Stuart Maconie leads the expedition, with plenty of stop-offs for tea and scones, to discover the truth.

Stuart Maconie is a writer, broadcaster and journalist familiar to millions from his work in print, on radio and on TV. His previous bestsellers have included Cider with Roadies, Pies and Prejudice and Adventures on the High Teas, and he currently hosts the afternoon show on BBC 6music with Mark Radcliffe as well as weekly show The Freak Zone. Based in the cities of Birmingham and Manchester, he can also often be spotted on top of a mountain in the Lake District with a Thermos flask and individual pork pie.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.3.2010
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	126 x 198 mm
Gewicht	239 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
ISBN-10	0-09-192651-3 / 0091926513
ISBN-13	978-0-09-192651-9 / 9780091926519
Zustand	Neuware