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A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution

By Travis Elborough

Book information

Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Year
2016
ISBN
9781448192496
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
21 MB (22285178 bytes)
Pages
0\0
Time added
2019-03-01 10:04:40

Description

'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.

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