Peter Sager
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£16.95
Fourth revised edition
579pp 256 b/w plates, text illustrations
and diagrams 39 colour plates
2 fold-out maps 205 x 150mm portrait
Gentle slopes, rough coasts and broad horizons, salty marshes and lavender, sugar beet and rose gardens - this is East Anglia, a landscape of huge open skies which has been a temptation to every invader and every get-rich-quick merchant in history; and with Constable, Gainsborough and many others, it has been home to some of the most quintessentially English painting and building.
Peter Sager's ebullient writing combines the clear eye of the outsider with the enthusiasm of the convert. East Anglians will relish unexpected vistas of their own region, and visitors will be fascinated by the riches of these three ancient counties. Sager does full justice to the variety of East Anglia, covering the region from the stripey cliffs at Hunstanton in north Norfolk, close to the royal family's favourite house, Sandringham, to the cockney paradise of Jaywick near Southend. Residents as diverse as Wolsey, Constable, Nelson, Jack Kett, Benjamin Britten, St. Edmund and Dorothy L. Sayers all make appearances.
Like its predecessor, Peter Sager's acclaimed guide to Wales, this is a 'thumping good read' as well as an indispensable travelling companion.
The author, Peter Sager, was born in 1945. He is an art critic and radio editor, and since 1975 has been a reporter for Die Zeit. In 1989 he won Germany's most prestigious award for journalism, the Egon-Erwin-Kisch Award. He has written many books on art and travel, and resides in Hamburg with his family.
The translator, David Henry Wilson, was born in 1937. A university lecturer in Britain and Germany, he also writes plays, children's books and novels. He lives with his family in Somerset.
