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Title: A WALK IN THE PARK
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A PEOPLE'S INSTITUTION
By: Travis Elborough
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0099593823
ISBN 13: 9780099593829
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Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 1 June, 2017
Pages: 288
Description: Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention.The author excavates the history of parks in all their colour and complexity. It is a celebration of a small wonder that - in an age of swingeing cuts - we should not take for granted.
Synopsis: "A fascinating, informative, revelatory book". (William Boyd, Guardian). Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention. From their medieval inception as private hunting grounds through to their modern incarnation as public spaces of rest and relaxation, parks have been fought over by land-grabbing monarchs, reforming Victorian industrialists, hippies, punks, and somewhere along the way, the common folk trying to savour their single day of rest. In A Walk in the Park, Travis Elborough excavates the history of parks in all their colour and complexity. Loving, funny and impassioned, this is a timely celebration of a small wonder that - in an age of swingeing cuts - we should not take for granted.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Vintage
Returns: Returnable
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