Shakespeare's Pub: A Barstool History of London As Seen Through the Windows of Its Oldest Pub - The George Inn - Brossura

Brown, Pete

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1250049024 ISBN 13: 9781250049025

Casa editrice: Griffin, 2014

Riassunto

A history of Britain as reflected by the George Inn near London Bridge traces its 600-year history, revealing its patronage by such famous figures as Chaucer and Dickens as well as everyday visitors ranging from sailors and murderers to highwaymen and peddlers.

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L'autore

PETE BROWN used to advertise lager for a living, until he realized that writing books about beer was even more fun, and entailed drinking even more beer. He appears regularly on television as a beer expert, writes on beer for a variety of publications and is the author of Man Walks into a Pub and the award-winning travel book Three Sheets to the Wind. He was named the British Guild of Beer Writers Beer Writer of the Year 2009. He lives in London.

Product Description

A history of Britain told through the story of one very special pub, from "The Beer Drinker's Bill Bryson" "(Times Literary Supplement)"""""Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-paneled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and lean back, resting your head against the wall. And then consider this: who else has rested their head against that wall, over the last six hundred years?Chaucer and his fellow pilgrims almost certainly drank in the George on their way out of London to Canterbury. It's fair to say that Shakespeare popped in from the nearby Globe for a pint, and we know that Dickens certainly did. Mail carriers changed their horses here, before heading to all four corners of Britain--while sailors drank here before visiting all four corners of the world.The pub, as Pete Brown points out, is the 'primordial cell of British life' and in the George he has found the perfect example. All life is here, from murderers, highwaymen, and ladies of the night to gossiping peddlers and hard-working clerks. So sit back with "Shakespeare's Pub" and watch as buildings rise and fall over the centuries, and 'the beer drinker's Bill Bryson' (UK's "Times Literary Supplement") takes us on an entertaining tour through six centuries of history, through the stories of everyone that ever drank in one pub.

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• Editore: Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1250049024
• ISBN 13: 9781250049025
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352