The Penguin Guide to England and Wales 1989


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Spine title: England & Wales. Provides recommendations for sights, activities, hotels, restaurants, nightlife, and shopping.










The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland


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Are black cats lucky or unlucky? What should you do when you hear the first cuckoo? Since when have people believed that it's unlucky to shoot an albatross? Why does breaking a mirror lead to misfortune? This fascinating collection answers these and many other questions about the world of superstitions and forms an endlessly browsable guide to a subject that continues to obsess and intrigue.







The Penguin Guide to Prehistoric England and Wales


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"From Stonehenge and Silbury Hill to the magnificent cliff castles of Cornwall and the hill forts on the Welsh Marches, this Penguin guide covers, county by county, almost a thousand prehistoric sites in England and Wales."--Back cover.




The Penguin Guide to English Literature


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A revised version of The History of Literature in English, this book is aimed at students of EFL at intermediate level. It has eight short chapters on literature from 500 AD to the present.




The Farming of Prehistoric Britain


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Emphasizing past gains in knowledge from experimental, aerial and field archaeology, Dr Fowler demonstrates how the application of archaeological approaches to agrarian history has made the subject central to our understanding of the prehistoric period. Emphasizing past gains in knowledge from experimental, aerial and field archaeology, Dr Fowler demonstrates how the application of archaeological approaches to agrarian history has made the subject central to our understanding of the prehistoric period.




The Penguin Guide to London 1991


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