British Heritage Book Reviews
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Queen Lucia, by E.F. Benson, Moyer Bell, Wakefield, Rhode Island. $10.95, paperback.
Just in time to fill the vacuum left by the demise of 'Seinfeld', Moyer Bell has published what could be considered its more sophisticated literary antecedent, Queen Lucia. …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Traveller's Guide to Arthurian Britain, by Geoffrey Ashe, Gothic Image, 7 High Street, Glastonbury, Somerset BA8 9DP, $22.95 paperback.It is said that only the Devil has more places throughout Britain named after him than does King Arthur. One …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Christopher Wren, by James Chambers, is published by Sutton Publishing Limited, 260 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10001, 800-758-3756, $9.95, paperback, 1998.
James Chambers' Christopher Wren, another title in Sutton's "Pocket Biographies" series, filled in some gaps in my knowledge …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Thomas Becket: His Last Days, by William Urry. Published by Sutton Publishing Limited, 260 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10001, 212213-2 775. 192 pages. $34.95, hardcover.
The often uneasy relationship between church and state has as a prime example …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
ARTHUR: THE KING IN THE WESTMost of the tales surrounding Arthur and his knights of the Round Table are pure fiction. But they are no less fun for that. R. W Dunning adds to the fun with his recent …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Into the Path of the Gods, by Kathleen Cunningham Guler, Bardsong Press, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, $22.95, hardback.If you liked King Arthur's Britain, the March instalment of our Britain's Historic Landscape series, and you're honest enough to admit that you …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Idylls of the King, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, edited by J. M. Gray, Penguin Classics, $11.95, paperback. Tel: 800-253-6476.Scholars may continue to debate the existence of Camelot, but for devotees of Arthurian lore, the ultimate truth can be a …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
WILLIAM WALLACE: BRAVEHEARTWilliam Wallace, the Scots nationalist hero recently made famous in celluloid form by Mel Gibson's Braveheart, wasundoubtedly a first-rate hero and, throughout most of his life, a man devoted to achieving Scottish independence. He was alsoa man, …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Oxford Companion to Food, by Alan Davidson. Oxford University Press, 1999, 800-451-7556. 912 pages. $60.
The thing about scholarly companions is that they usually lack the quiddities that make books sing rather than just mumble; they fuel specialists with …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Country Railways, by Paul Atterbury, Trafalgar Square, North Pomfret, Vermont 05053, $17.95, hardback.As Paul Atterbury points out in the introduction to Country Railways, William Wordsworth positively loathed railroads; not because of inefficiency or overcrowding or high-priced tickets, but because …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Queen Victoria's Secrets, by Adrienne Munich, published by Columbia University Press, 562 West 113th Street, New York, NY 10025. Tel: 800-944-8648 x6221. $16.50, paperback.
Queen Victoria's six-decade reign marked one of the most significant eras in British history. During this …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Britain On Your Own: A Guide for Single Mature Travelers, by Dorothy Maroncelli, West Wind Books, P.O. Box 246, Dundas, MN 55019, Tel: 507-663-7262, $12.95 paperback, plus $3 for shipping and handling.Britain On Your Own: A Guide for Single …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Stories in Stone: The Medieval Roof Carvings of Norwich Cathedral, text by Martial Rose, photographs by Julia Hedgecoe, Thames & Hudson, New York, (800)233-4830. $19.95, paperback.When I first visited Norwich Cathedral in the autumn of 1992, our guide asked …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Ugly Dachshund, by G.B. Stern, published by J.N. Townsend, Exeter, New Hampshire. To order, please phone 603-778-9883 or 800-333-9883. $15, paperback, 1998.
Fifty years ago, in 1938, as Great Britain began to hear the first distant rumblings of the …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
The Forgotten Queen, by Haley Elizabeth Garwood, published by The Writers Block, Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, 1998. Tel: 304-379-8162. $17.95 paperback.
Throughout the centuries, there are inevitably those who history forgets. Figures who, in their day, were as monumental and …
Published: August 12, 2001 at 1:01 am
Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats, by Brenda Maddox. Published by HarperCollins, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. 212-207-7000. 474 pages. $32 hardcover.
One reviewer of Brenda Maddox's unusual but insightful biography of the man many …
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