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The Vanished Landscape Paul Johnson

The Vanished Landscape By Paul Johnson

The Vanished Landscape by Paul Johnson


$14.99
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

Paul Johnson recalls, with warmth and affection, his childhood in the Potteries - and a unique industrial landscape that has now gone for ever

The Vanished Landscape Summary

The Vanished Landscape: A 1930s Childhood in the Potteries by Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson, the celebrated historian, grew up in Tunstall, one of the six towns around Stoke-on-Trent that made up the Potteries'. From an early age he was fascinated by the strange beauty of its volcanic landscape of fiery furnaces belching out heat and smoke. As a child he often accompanied his father - headmaster of the local art school and desperate to find jobs for his students, for this was the Hungry Thirties - to the individual pottery firms and their coal-fired ovens. His adored mother and father are at the heart of this story and his older sisters who, as much as his parents, brought him up. Children made their own amusements to an extent unimaginable today, and his life was extraordinarily free and unsupervised. No door was locked - Poverty was everywhere but so were the Ten Commandments.' The book ends in 1938 as the 11-year-old author queues at the town-hall for a gas mask.

The Vanished Landscape Reviews

Well written, full of affectionate vignettes of working and family life, it conjures up a very particular place in a rather captivating way. DAILY EXPRESS An enchanting account of a vanished landscape. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH unashamedly nostalgic... a sequence of sharp and vivid snapshots of the people, places and events that shaped his imagination. SUNDAY TIMES

About Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson, who was born in 1928 and educated at Stonyhurst and Magdalen College, Oxford, edited the New Statesman magazine in the 1960s and has written over forty books. A contributor to newspapers all over the world, he lives in London and Somerset.

Additional information

GOR001350179
9780753819333
0753819333
The Vanished Landscape: A 1930s Childhood in the Potteries by Paul Johnson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
20050707
208
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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