A National Trust Miscellany

The National Trust's Greatest Secrets & Surprises

Ian Allen, National Trust Books (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

136 Seiten

2022
National Trust Books (Verlag)
978-1-911657-43-9 (ISBN)

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Staggering statistics, strange facts and all kinds of surprising stuff from the National Trust. Haunted houses, baffling objects, bizarre buildings and distinctly curious characters.

• Who needs an upside-down lighthouse? • How can you tell a gargoyle from a hunky punk? • What are the top 10 historical toilets? • Where’s the best place to see a UFO? • Why would you hang toast on a tree?

Welcome to this smorgasbord of strangely compelling facts and figures about the National Trust.

Find out what lurks under the floorboards of its grandest homes and hides behind the shrubs in its gardens. Meet some of the curious characters who lived at its properties, and discover the unusual jobs carried out by its staff. Pit your wits against National Trust curators to identify the oddest things in their care.

For secrets, surprises and strange things of all kinds, read on.

Ian Allen is the compiler of several joke books and a cricket quiz book, and has been a member of the National Trust for decades. He loves the wide range of properties and the epic sweep of the landscape of the Trust, but is even more interested in the quirky stories that lie behind the history.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	National Trust
Zusatzinfo	(40 b-w line illustrations)
Sprache	englisch
Maße	126 x 186 mm
Gewicht	280 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Großbritannien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-911657-43-7 / 1911657437
ISBN-13	978-1-911657-43-9 / 9781911657439
Zustand	Neuware