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Michael Wood.
In Search of England: Journeys into the English Past.
Published Harmondsworth: Viking, 3rd impression (reprints the 1999 edn.)
ISBN 0670861847.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Size: 160×241×32mm.
Page count: text xvi,336pp; plates 16pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some noticeable storage wear, dustjacket a bit scuffed and worn; text pages somewhat yellowed with age; otherwise looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[~~Publisher’s price for paperback £10.99~~]
Weight without packaging: 716g.

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Emphasis not exclusively medieval. Contents: The Norman yoke; King Arthur — lost again? Glastonbury — the Grail & the Isle of Avalon; Merrie England — legend of Robin Hood; When was England England?; The troublesome journey & laborious search of John Leland; Alfred the Great — case of the Fenland forger; Lost life of King Athelstan; The story of a book; The last bowl-turner of England; Tinsley Wood; A Devon house — Domesday & beyond; Peatling Magna — August 1265; Jarrow & English history; Epilogue — an English family.

Illustrations: 3 monochrome text illustrations and 16 pages of plates (8 in colour, 8 monochrome)
Maps & plans: no

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 20pp, annotated
Index: yes

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