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

    A Walk in the Park by Elborough, Travis;

    The Life and Times of a People's Institution

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    Estimated delivery time: Expected time of arrival: end of January 2026.
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    Product details:

    • Publisher Random House
    • Date of Publication 1 June 2017
    • Number of Volumes B-format paperback

    • ISBN 9780099593829
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages416 pages
    • Size 198x129x26 mm
    • Weight 330 g
    • Language English
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    Long 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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