An Armchair Traveller’s History of Cambridge
9781907973772
9781907973475
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An Armchair Traveller’s History of Cambridge
An Armchair Traveller’s History of Cambridge provides not only a narrative of the city and university, and a guide to visits within a short driving distance, it also features a variety of aspects ignored in other accounts: food and fashion, music and gardens, books and clubs, Cambridge contributions to poetry, theatre and sport, royal associations and links with the Arab world and China. Cambridge offers the splendour of King’s College Chapel and the beauty of "the Backs" but also outstanding collections of fans and fritillaries, sculpture and stained glass, medieval coins and oriental manuscripts. Free attractions include the world-class Fitzwilliam Museum and Botanic Gardens, quirky Kettle’s Yard, and museums devoted to Archaeology, Anthropology, Zoology, Earth Sciences, Polar Research and the History of Science—plus Britain’s oldest bookshop. Enter the world of "Bumps and Bedders" and learn why May Week is in June. Research reveals that most visitors to Cambridge never venture more than four hundred yards from the Market Square. An Armchair Traveller’s History of Cambridge will help you do better than that—and want to.
Table of Contents
King’s College Chapel: An Iconic Interlude
Long to Reign Over Us: A Royal Interlude
3 From Reformation to the Civil War
Cambridge Gardens: A Horticultural Interlude
Land of Lost Content: A Poetic Interlude
All in Harmony? A Musical Interlude
The Inner Man: A Gastronomic Interlude
Jewels in the Crown: An Oriental Interlude
Clubs and Cliques: A Fraternal Interlude
Acting It Out: A Thespian Interlude
Looking the Part: A Sartorial Interlude
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