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Steeped in history, the Channel Islands attract nearly a million visitors a year. This guide gives practical information about the island which will make it easier for the reader to plan their own excursions. The museum and art gallery descriptions have been revised abd updated and this edition inlcudes all the new attractions to the island. It gives detailed accounts of the beaches, coves, country walks, megalithic and medieval ruins.
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Briefly traces the history and describes the geography, culture, and peoples of the land known as the Emerald Isle.
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Explore the beaches, rocky coves, country walks, ruins, and museums and galleries of the Channel Islands. This new edition includes hotel and restaurant recommendations. 8 maps and plans. 20 illustrations.
This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon models of church. The book will be based on evidence from archaeological excavations, early texts and recent critical scholarship and cover Wessex, Devon and Cornwall. In the south-west, Wessex provides the greatest evidence of Roman Christianity. The fifth-century Dorset villas of Frampton and Hinton St Mary, with their complex baptistery mosaics, indicate the presence of sophisticated Christian house churches. The fact that these two Roman villas are only 15 miles apart suggests a network of s...
Deborah Manley's selection of extracts reveals how generations of writers have viewed the landscapes of Malta and Gozo, the people of the islands, the splendours of Valletta and its famous harbour, and the celebrated festas, the village festivals that celebrate the island's Catholic identity. An introduction places these extracts in context, while the anthology also considers how Maltese writers have imagined and depicted their homeland.