Description: "A study of how the English natural landscape was transformed into a major tourist, heritage, and leisure resource from the early modern period to the Second World War"--
Brief description: Peter Borsay was Professor of History at the University of Aberystwyth, UK.
Review Quotes: A masterly work- wide-sweeping, provocative, readable- by one of Britain's leading cultural historians. Peopled with poets and novelists, antiquarians and fossil collectors, churchmen, hack journalists, artists and composers ( Elgar, Butterworth, Vaughan Williams), Borsay's book recounts the story of the imagining and reimagining of England's landscape, as the nation was transformed by industrial urbanisation and the insatiable rise of London, the transport revolution, Romanticism, and the racist snobbery of Empire.
Peter Clark, Professor of European Urban History, University of Helsinki, FInland