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A LUST FOR WINDOW SILLS: A LOVER'S GUIDE TO BRITISH BUILDINGS FROM PORTCULLIS TO PEBBLE DASH by MOUNT, HARRY (Paperback - 2011)
ISBN: 9780349121062
Subject: ART, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY
Publisher: ABACUS
AMO, AMAS, AMAT... AND ALL THAT: HOW TO BECOME A LATIN LOVER by MOUNT, HARRY (Hardcover - 2006)
ISBN: 9781904977544
Subject: REFERENCE & LANGUAGES
Publisher: SHORT BOOKS UK
AMO, AMAS, AMAT... AND ALL THAT: HOW TO BECOME A LATIN LOVER by MOUNT, HARRY (Paperback - 2008)
ISBN: 9781906021153
Subject: HUMOUR
Publisher: SHORT BOOKS
CARPE DIEM: PUT A LITTLE LATIN IN YOUR LIFE by MOUNT, HARRY (Hardcover - 2007)
ISBN: 9781401322342
Subject: REFERENCE & LANGUAGES
Publisher: HYPERION
HARRY MOUNT'S ODYSSEY: ANCIENT GREECE IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ODYSSEUS by MOUNT, HARRY (Hardcover - 2015)
ISBN: 9781472904676
Subject: HISTORY (NON-ASIAN)
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
HOW ENGLAND MADE THE ENGLISH: FROM HEDGEROWS TO HEATHROW by MOUNT, HARRY (Hardcover - 2012)
ISBN: 9780670919130
Subject: HISTORY (NON-ASIAN)
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
HOW ENGLAND MADE THE ENGLISH: FROM WHY WE DRIVE ON THE LEFT TO WHY WE DON'T TALK TO OUR NEIGHBOURS by MOUNT, HARRY (Paperback - 2013)
ISBN: 9780670919147
Subject: HISTORY (NON-ASIAN)
Publisher: PENGUIN UK

Q. Why do you drive on the left side of the road? A. In the violent Middle Ages you kept to the left for the simple reason that you never knew who you''d meet on your travels. You made sure that a stranger passed on the right so you could go for your sword in case he proved unfriendly. This witty and accessible book explains how our national characteristics - our sense of humour, our hobbies, our favourite foods and our behaviour with the opposite sex - are all defined by our nation''s extraordinary geography, geology, climate and weather. You will learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why today''s cramped train seats are exactly the same size as Roman chariots; and, why the Midlands became the home of the British curry. It identifies the materials that make England, too: the faint pink Aberdeen granite of kerbstones; that precise English mix of air temperature, smell and light that hits you the moment you touch down at Heathrow.
LUST FOR WINDOW SILLS: A LOVER'S GUIDE TO BRITISH BUILDINGS FROM PORTCULLIS TO PEBBLE DASH by MOUNT, HARRY (Hardcover - 2008)
ISBN: 9781408700907
Subject: ART, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY
Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN UK
MY BRIEF CAREER : THE TRIALS OF A YOUNG LAWYER by MOUNT, HARRY (Paperback - 2004)
ISBN: 9781904977070
Subject: BIOGRAPHY
Publisher: SHORT BOOKS
WIT AND WISDOM OF BORIS JOHNSON, THE by MOUNT, HARRY (Hardcover - 2013)
ISBN: 9781408183526
Subject: SOCIETY, POLITICS & PHILOSOPHY
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
   
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