Beautiful Britain-Cambridge - Home, Gordon
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A gentle invitation to wander, and a lasting memory of a city seen with fresh eyes. Beautiful Britain-Cambridge invites you to stroll the bridges and colleges again through the eyes of late nineteenth-century English travel writers. This restored edition gathers Gordon Home's vivid scenes into an illustrated travelogue that serves as both city guide and cultural portrait. It's more than a collection of sketches; the volume stitches together Cambridge University sights, architectural highlights, and the ambience of Victorian England into a cohesive journey. For british travellers and armchair…mehr

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A gentle invitation to wander, and a lasting memory of a city seen with fresh eyes. Beautiful Britain-Cambridge invites you to stroll the bridges and colleges again through the eyes of late nineteenth-century English travel writers. This restored edition gathers Gordon Home's vivid scenes into an illustrated travelogue that serves as both city guide and cultural portrait. It's more than a collection of sketches; the volume stitches together Cambridge University sights, architectural highlights, and the ambience of Victorian England into a cohesive journey. For british travellers and armchair travellers alike, the book offers a steady, humane voice that makes precise observations feel warmly human, a true city guide anthology rooted in british travel writing traditions. Originally out of print for decades, Alpha Editions brings this treasure back for today's readers and future generations. It is not merely a reprint but a carefully curated cultural treasure: a preserved artifact of late nineteenth century britain, revived for modern sensibilities. The text will appeal to casual readers seeking evocative travel reading and to collectors who prize literary-historical significance and the quiet authority of english travel writers. Beautiful Britain-Cambridge honours both of these strands: the beauty of a university town's scenery and the enduring joy of exploration. It stands as a bridge between eras, a unique keepsake for those who treasure Cambridge and the broader British landscape.
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Gordon Cochrane Home was an English landscape painter, author, and illustrator who lived from July 25, 1878, until December 13, 1969. London is where Home first appeared. He was employed as an art editor by publishers A & C Black as well as "The Tatler" and "The King." After serving in France and North Africa as a Major in the Royal Army Service Corps from 1914 to 1920, he went on extensive travels throughout North Africa, the British Empire, and the Commonwealth. Home regularly showed at the Royal Academy and focused mostly on watercolor and pen and ink painting. In 1921, he participated in the Society of Graphic Art's inaugural annual exhibition. Home penned and illustrated numerous travel and historical fiction books for companies such as A & C Black and J M Dent.