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"Shropshire is Ellis Peters country - England's hauntingly beautiful border shire that is the glorious real world of her medieval mysteries. Now, with the help of Roy Morgan's fifty-five evocative color photographs, she takes us on a guided tour through this land of market towns and picturesque villages, ruined castles and Benedictine abbeys, Norman churches and the heather-covered moorlands that huddle beneath rocky crags and ancient hills." "All the intriguing scenes and memorable landscapes of Ellis Peters's wonderful books come to life as she takes you to her favorite places. Here is the Roman road on the flank of the Long Mountain, with its grand stormy view of the river below, that she walked so often when she wrote The Heaven Tree and its sequels. Here too is the town of Shrewsbury on the River Severn, which Ellis Peters visited as a small child. Remaining indomitably medieval and Elizabethan to view, it is not only the historic site where Henry Hotspur fell in the Battle of Shrewsbury, but the actual setting for the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter and St Paul featured in Ellis Peters's beloved Brother Cadfael mysteries." "And as Roy Morgan's pictures capture the rustic, almost magical charm of Britain's most unspoiled region, much of the warm, loving, and deeply enriching commentary that Ellis Peters shares with us comes from her own life and memories. More than a lush travel book, Shropshire is a personal memoir of the landscape, native and familiar, that she used in all her books, sometimes with a topography diffused between reality and dream, but always recognizably Shropshire. Whether she describes hiring a wagonette and horses to come home from fireworks in Shrewsbury and rushing from the 'two-up, two-down' village house of her childhood to see a rare display of the aurora borealis or whether she tells in a forthright, let's-carry-on voice of the new city built on farmlands that is today's Telford, she is indelibly bound to this very special place - and is the perfect guide to the castles, cottages, and rolling hills that are so quintessentially England."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| ISBN-13 | 9780892965168 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0892965169 |
| Weight | 1.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 10.00 x 0.75 x 9.75 In |
| List Price | $35.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Pages | 168 pages |
| Publisher | Grand Central Pub |
| Published On | 1993-03-01 |
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