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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Stage-coach and mail in days of yore: A picturesque history of the coaching age (Volume II)

Stage-coach and mail in days of yore: A picturesque history of the coaching age (Volume II)

G. Harper, Charles

Paperback

AviationGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 9353608864
ISBN13: 9789353608866
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 15 2019
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Rattle of wheels on cobbles, the flash of harness and lamp-lit inns: the world of the stage-coach still haunts British roads. The open road shaped Britain. In Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore (Volume II), Charles G. Harper continues his classic coaching narrative, tracing the history of stagecoaches and the rise of the mail across Georgian and Victorian England. At once an illustrated transport history book and a pictorial social history book, it explores the everyday drama of travel, the evolution of routes and services, and the life that clustered around historic coaching inns in England, capturing a vanished British coaching age era in exact detail and lively prose for British history enthusiasts and curious general readers alike. One of the foremost chroniclers of the late Victorian passion for the road, Harper offers a richly textured British mail coach history and a vivid British postal history book in narrative form, the definitive Charles G. Harper coaching chronicle for lovers of roads, inns and landscapes. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Perfect for transport buffs and armchair travellers, this timeless volume is both engaging reading and a thoughtful gift for history lovers, as well as a distinctive centrepiece for any antique travel book collection.

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