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How England made the English: from why we drive on the left to why we don't talk to our neighbours

By Harry , Mount

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd;Viking
ISBN
9780670919154, 9780670919147, 0670919144, 0670919152
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
16 MB (16368065 bytes)
Pages
xxvii, 340 pages ; 20 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
English;History;Great Britain -- History;England -Manners and customs;National characteristics

Description

Harry Mount's How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours is packed with astonishing facts and wonderful stories.Q. Why are English train seats so narrow?A. It's all the Romans' fault. The first Victorian trains were built to the same width as horse-drawn wagons; and they were designed to fit the ruts left in the roads by Roman chariots. For readers of Paxman's The English, Bryson's Notes on a Small Island and Fox's Watching the English, this intriguing and witty book explains how our national characteristics - our sense of humour, our hobbies, our favourite foods and our behaviour with the opposite sex - are all defined by our nation's extraordinary geography, geology, climate and weather.You will learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; why the...

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