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A Walk in the Park
  • ISBN: 9780099593829
  • Pages: 416
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Binding: Paperback

A Walk in the Park

Travis Elborough
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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  we should not take for granted.

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.

‘A fascinating, informative, revelatory book’ William Boyd



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