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The perfect gift for fans of the show as well as lovers of Britain's cultural heritage.
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A TV tie-in with Great American Railway Journeys, the genre now a perennially popular, prime-time BBC2 televisual feast, fronted by Michael Portillo.
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This study of Elizabethan England examines the expansion of society both by state and individual enterprise, starting at home then travelling across the seas to Ireland, the East, and the New Worlds of the Americas.
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A must-have purchase for any armchair fan of unique and award-winning travel programming. Great Continental Railway Journeys is now a firmly established series on BBC2, following in the illustrious tracks of its predecessor - Great British Railway Journeys. Both series are fronte...d by ex-politician Michael Portillo and in this European odyssey he travels around continental Europe, using George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide. Now coming up for its fourth instalment this autumn, Portillo guides the train-travelling fan across Europe arriving at a myriad of magical and historically fascinating cities we all dream of travelling to by train. From London, to Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Copenhagen, Oslo, Lisbon, Madrid, Berlin, Monte Carlo, Prague, Munich, Zurich, Rome, Budapest, St Petersburg; all the way down to Constantinople, Haifa and Jerusalem - Portillo describes the great feats of engineering that built the various railway lines connecting Europe and further afield and the men and women who made these journeys famous through their deeds and words. This audiobook covers every single journey Portillo has undertaken across Europe. Capturing all the colour, beauty, excitement and fervour of journeying across this historic continent can muster.
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A must-have purchase for any armchair fan of unique and award-winning travel programming. Great Continental Railway Journeys is now a firmly established series on BBC2, following in the illustrious tracks of its predecessor - Great British Railway Journeys. Both series are fronte...d by ex-politician Michael Portillo and in this European odyssey he travels around continental Europe, using George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide. Now coming up for its fourth instalment this autumn, Portillo guides the train-travelling fan across Europe arriving at a myriad of magical and historically fascinating cities we all dream of travelling to by train. From London, to Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Copenhagen, Oslo, Lisbon, Madrid, Berlin, Monte Carlo, Prague, Munich, Zurich, Rome, Budapest, St Petersburg; all the way down to Constantinople, Haifa and Jerusalem - Portillo describes the great feats of engineering that built the various railway lines connecting Europe and further afield and the men and women who made these journeys famous through their deeds and words. This audiobook covers every single journey Portillo has undertaken across Europe. Capturing all the colour, beauty, excitement and fervour of journeying across this historic continent can muster.
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The perfect gift for fans of the show as well as lovers of Britain's cultural heritage.
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A compelling and evocative history of Britain through the stories of its 'lost' or abandoned buildings, published to tie in with Channel 5's series of the same name.
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The fourth volume of the Poster to Poster series. The result is a stunning artistic guide to both the 'flatlands of England' and its artistic heritage. 'A great volume of railway posters.' Michael Portillo
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A compelling and evocative history of Britain through the stories of its `lost' or abandoned buildings; a companion to Channel 5's series of the same name.
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A must-have purchase for any armchair fan of unique and award-winning travel programming. Great Continental Railway Journeys is now a firmly established series on BBC2, following in the illustrious tracks of its predecessor Great British Railway Journeys. Both series are fronted ...by ex-politician Michael Portillo and in this European odyssey he travels around continental Europe, using George Bradshaw s 1913 Continental Railway Guide. Now coming up for its fourth instalment this autumn, Portillo guides the train-travelling fan across Europe arriving at a myriad of magical and historically fascinating cities we all dream of travelling to by train. From London, to Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Copenhagen, Oslo, Lisbon, Madrid, Berlin, Monte Carlo, Prague, Munich, Zurich, Rome, Budapest, St. Petersburg; all the way down to Constantinople, Haifa, and Jerusalem Portillo describes the great feats of engineering that built the various railway lines connecting Europe and further afield and the men and women who made these journeys famous through their deeds and words. This audiobook covers every single journey Portillo has undertaken across Europe. Capturing all the colour, beauty, excitement, and fervour of journeying across this historic continent can muster.
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