Evergreen

138 EVERGREEN Autumn
“Dawn at Symonds Yat” is a colour
illustration from an amusing 19th-century
diary, Camping on the Wye.
New from the Shire series, are five
more excellent little volumes:
Gothic Revival Architecture by
Trevor Yorke;
Medieval Castles of England and
Wales by Bernard Lowry;
Fashion in the 1950s by Daniel
Milford-Cottam;
WRNS — The Women’s Royal
Naval Service by Neil. R. Storey;
Canals in Britain by Tony Conder.
(Shire, 64pp, paperback, £7.99 each).
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Art and Nature in the Middle
Ages by Nicole Myers is a
colourful account of stained-glass,
icons, materials etc. (Yale, 136pp,
paperback, £27.50).
In 1892, four men in striped blazers,
rowed a hired skiff down the River
Wye. One of them kept an illustrated
diary detailing hilarious escapades
which you can read about in Camping
on the Wye. (Bloomsbury, 168pp,
hardback, £10).
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L
.T.C. Rolt was a pioneering
traveller and engineer involved
with all kinds of machinery in
the countryside — canals and
trains in particular. His three-part
autobiography has been reprinted as:
Landscape with Machines; Landscape
with Canals; and Landscape with
Figures. (History Press, 250pp,
paperback, £14.99 each).
Truro Cathedral in Cornwall. See Gothic
Revival Architecture.