Author: Ed Glinert (photos by me)
Publication date: October 2023
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
Dimensions: 135 x 205mm
| From the author…
Oxford is the home of superlatives. Is it really the finest city in the world as Keats claimed 200 years ago? Was W. B. Yeats right when he wondered how anyone in Oxford did anything but ‘dream and remember; the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking’?
Yes, everything you’ve read about Oxford, all the compliments you’ve heard, are true. The world’s most famous university city is immediately, obviously beautiful, for it is filled with the most heart-warming architecture. College buildings wrought from classy Cotswold stone replete with Classical embellishments. Theatres and halls created by the greatest of architects: Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Butterfield. A city built on the love of learning, alma mater to many of the greatest figures in English history…
| From me…
Other than a brief stay twenty years previously – and catching the occasional Morse episode – I barely knew Oxford when I was asked to take the photos for Ed’s book. It was a wonderful opportunity to explore this historic city and get to know it in-depth.
| What’s in the book?
Gaze in awe at the finest classical architecture in England. Explore the country’s greatest seats of learning. Spend a dreamy afternoon basking in the magnificent urban meadow that inspired Alice in Wonderland or stroll by the bucolic Thames and Cherwell rivers. And sup in pubs where Tolkien, Larkin and Waugh devised passages of glorious literature. Explore the little-known treasures and secret places around Oxford’s every corner.
Published by Emons.
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You may also like 111 Places in Yorkshire that you shouldn’t miss, another book I worked on with Ed.
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