Once Upon A Pint: A Reader's Guide to the Literary Pubs & Inns of Dorset & Somerset - Softcover

Townsend, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857042157 ISBN 13: 9780857042156

Publisher: Halsgrove, 2013

Synopsis

Most people enjoy visiting old inns simply because they feel a vague sense of history. This pleasure can be greatly enhanced if a few facts are known about its past. Every county in England has its share of literar y pubs and inns but the southern counties are par ticularly blessed. This book is a literary pub crawl around two of England’s most beautiful and least spoilt shires, Dor set and Somer set, following in the steps of famous and lesser known writer s. Here are town pubs, countr y pubs, village pubs, r iverside pubs and seaside pubs all with one thing in common; they have been immor talised by association with books or writers. Among the many characters you will meet along the way are Lorna Doone, Sam Weller, Inspector Mor se, Tess of the d’Urber villes , Barry Lyndon, The Ancient Mar iner, Anne Elliot and her Captain Wentworth, The French Lieutenant's Woman. The Mayor of Casterbridge and a Poet Laureate turned thriller writer. The literar y pilgrimage has long been accepted as a good excuse to tr avel. Now, if you need it, you also have a good excuse to pop down the pub. Illustrated throughout in colour, this handy new hardback is the essential guide to more than fifty of the most characterful hostelries in the fair counties of Dorset and Somer set and their famous literary links. Cheer s and good reading!

Edition details

• Publisher: Halsgrove
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857042157
• ISBN 13: 9780857042156
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128