Canterbury
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers planning a trip to Canterbury who want to learn the city's history in advance
- People interested in English local history, church architecture, and urban character
- Readers who enjoy literary geography and travel essays and prefer slow reading
- Teachers and students who need background material on English history and culture
Not a good fit for
- Readers who want fast-paced fiction or strongly plotted stories
- Researchers who need systematic academic monographs with detailed footnotes
- Readers entirely unfamiliar with English history and geography who are unwilling to fill in the background
Reading tips
- Look over the table of contents and chapter titles first to build an overall framework of the city's spaces and historical threads.
- Use maps or photographs as you read, following the book's descriptions in order of location.
- Look up architectural and historical terms as they come up, so that details do not stall your reading.
- After reading, put together your own walking route through Canterbury, matching the text to the real places.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Gordon Home (1878–1969) was a British writer and illustrator. Public information about his life is limited; what is known is that his work centred on local scenery and travel writing. The library holds twenty-one of his books, mostly on Britain and on Normandy in France. Among them, York: A Sketch-Book presents the old city through drawings, the three illustrated parts on Normandy introduce the local scenery and customs, and Yorkshire, Yorkshire Vales and Wolds, Yorkshire—Coast and Moorland Scenes and Canterbury focus on towns, countryside and coastal landscapes. His prose is plain and concise, grounded in direct observation and often accompanied by his own illustrations, making the books both useful guides and pleasant reading for those interested in British local history and travel literature.
