The Lost Art of Walking

Biographies & Memoirs

NICHOLSON, Geoff

Arts & Literature

Harbour Books East Ltd

Anyone's Game

Lesley Chamberlain

Literature & Fiction

Ruins have exerted a powerful hold over the human imagination since the Romantics, exciting thoughts of what once was and what might have been. With characteristic humour, insight and erudition, Geoff Nicholson takes us on a tour of ruins ancient and modern, picturesque and mundane, from Stonehenge and Alcatraz to a derelict zoo on the edge of Hollywood and an abandoned council estate in Sheffield.

Walking in Ruins

Travel

Travel Writing

Badmouth

Wall, Alan

Contemporary

A Shoe Story: Van Gogh, the Philosophers and the West

Arts & Photography

Chamberlain, Lesley

History & Criticism

Bleeding London

Geoff-Nicholson

Literary

Evelyn!: Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love

MCLAREN, Duncan

Revolution!: Writing from Russia 1917

Ayrton, Pete

<p>The suburb has a long history but it was nineteenth century social reformers who gave it a distinct identity. These benignly intentioned thinkers and developers established garden cities, an attempt to combine the health of country living with urban amenities. How did these utopian beginnings lead to the dreary wastelands so despised by intellectuals and avant-gardists of varying hues.\nGeoff Nicholson give us the history and pre-history of suburban development. He has read the panegyrics of the reformers who sought to improve our home-lives and has watched the sit-coms that mock the results. This is both a cultural history and a personal one; Geoff transverses the suburbs he knows and has lived in, whilst examining the treatises, the diatribes and the entertaining send-ups. He has live in the UK suburbs, in perhaps the only city built entirely as a suburb - Los Angeles - and visited suburbs widely. He is know for his walking books and here, in the Suburbanist, het sets out once again to guide us through a landscape we may feel we know but have never seen so vividly.</p>

The Suburbanist: A Personal Account and Ambivalent Celebration of Life in the Suburbs with Field Notes

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Book 9781905128358

Elsbeth Lindner

Memoirs

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