England, Our England

Informationen zum Autor Alan Titchmarsh is known to millions through his career as a television presenter of shows including Love Your Weekend, Love Your Garden , Ground Force , Gardeners' World , The Alan Titchmarsh Show and ITV's Spring Into Summer . He has written more than forty gardening books, as well as eleven novels and three volumes of memoirs. He was made MBE in the millennium New Year Honours list and holds the Victoria Medal of Honour, the Royal Horticultural Society's highest award. Klappentext An anthology and miscellany of everything an Englishman should know: - From Austen to Wordsworth - Jerusalem to the Scout's Honour - Kings and Queens of England to Land of Hope and Glory - Savile Row tailors to Jermyn St Shirt Makers - Tying a Windsor knot to making a pot of tea - Victoria sponge to fish pie - The rules of cricket to Gilbert and Sullivan operas A miscellany from one of the nation's favourite Englishmen of everything an Englishman should know. Like Schott's Miscellany and The Little Book of Patriotism , here is everything to celebrate our Englishness. Zusammenfassung A miscellany from one of the nation's favourite Englishmen of everything an Englishman should know. Like Schott's Miscellany and The Little Book of Patriotism, here is everything to celebrate our Englishness.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Titchmarsh
• Assisted by: Alan Titchmarsh (Illustration), Alan Titchmarsh (Editor)
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.03.2009
• EAN: 9780340953037
• ISBN: 978-0-340-95303-7
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 197 mm x 130 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; History, HUMOR / Topic / Celebrity & Popular Culture, HUMOR / Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, natural history, Self-help & personal development, Humour, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Nature and the natural world: general interest