Icons of England
| Editor | Bill Bryson |
| Introduction by | Bill Bryson |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers |
| Printed and Bound by | CPI Cox & Wyman |
| Foreword by | Charles, Prince of Wales |
| Imprint | Black Swan |
| Cover photo | Jon Arnold, JAI, Corbis, Alamy |
| First Published by | Think |
| Copyright Holder | Pan Macmillan Ltd, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Think, Transworld Publishers |
| About/Subject | England |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Great Britain |
| Copyright | 2008 |
| This Edition Published | 2010 |
| This Edition Published | 2010 |
| Pages / Font | 367 pages |
| Barcode | 9 780552 776356 |
| ISBN | 978-0-552-77635-6 |
| Printer's Key | 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 |
| Price | £7.99 |
| Chapters | Contents Foreword HRH The Prince of Wales Introduction – Bill Bryson In Search of England's Gnomes – Katie Adie A Place in the Country – George Alagiah From Pillar to Post – Peter Ashley From Little Acorns – Clive Aslet Rural Rides – Paul Atterbury Where the River Meets the Sea – Joan Bakewell Time to Stand Alone – Muhammad Abdul Bari Sighting the Stubble Stag – Simon Barnes 'Summer Is Icumen In' – Laura Barton Through the Lychgate – Sister Wendy Beckett Ghost Orchids – Antony Beevor The Call of the Grouse – David Bellamy Let's Talk About the Weather – Floella Benjamin Senses and Sensibility – Richard Benson Sticking the Wicket – Scyld Berry A Personal View – Harold 'Dickie' Bird An Ordinary Beauty – Terence Baker Love's Labours Won – Raymond Blanc Those Special Places – Ronald Blythe My Little Piece of History – Rosie Boycott The Final Frontier – Derry Brabbs Rutland How I Love Thee – Julia Bradbury In High Places – Melvyn Bragg Rural Development – Jo Brand The Urban Village – Vincent Cable The View from the Urals – Adrian Chiles What a Waste – Eric Clapton Back on Dry Land – Sue Clifford Rhyme and Reason – Wendy Cope All A Broad – Nicholas Crane Rebuilding the Past – Dan Cruickshank From the Trenches – General Sir Richard Dannatt Beside the Seaside – Jonathan Dimbleby A Passion for Meat – Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones Reading the Signs – Sebastian Faulks Another Time, Another Place – Bryan Ferry Riding High – Dick Francis A Conversation with Self – Trisha Goddard Defenders of Our Back Yards – Zac Goldsmith An Artist's Impression – Andy Goldsworthy Cherry Time – Henrietta Green Pastures New – Graham Harvey Bonfire Night – Tom Heap Following the Furrow – Paul Heiney Crossing Over – Leo Hickman The Tree Museum – Simon Hoggart How the Other Half Lives – Charlotte Hollins My Island – Elizabeth Jane Howard Against the Elements – Margaret Howell A Real Cliffhanger – Tristram Hunt Cathedrals of Sewage – Maxwell Hutchinson The Way Ahead – Kurt Jackson To the Manor Born – Simon Jenkins View over London – Terry Jones Older than England – Paul Kingsnorth Down Memory Lane – Miles Kington Earth Pilgrim – Satish Kumar Writing Stiles – David Lodge Bluebell Picnics – Gabby Logan Hidden Depths – Richard Mabey A Guardian of Beauty – Fiona MacCarthy The Road Taken – Robert MacFarlane Drawing the Line – Andrew Marr Scouring the Countryside – Peter Marren The Secret Kingdom of Marrowland – Simon Sebag Montefiore Fair Play – Brian Moore An Enduring Affair – Richard Muir My Corner Shop – Daljit Nagra Ancient Jewels – John Julius Norwich The Point of No Return – Sean O'Brien Living on the Edge – Michael Palin Taking Root – Jonathon Porritt Whatever the Weather – Gavin Pretor-Pinney Holding Back the Sea – Libby Purves Dig for Victory – Tony Robinson Smiling at the Neighbours – Alexei Sayle Paradise Found – John Sergeant The Bard's Own River – Antony Sher In Defence of Totnes – Lucy Siegle Forever Tranquil – Mary Smith Brave New World – Jon Snow A Slow Boat to Bristol – Kevin Spacey The Wild Dip – Rick Stein The Light of Day – Roy Strong Forbidden Fruits – Alice Temperley Poetry in Motion – Nigel Thompson This Land of Dreaming Spires – Simon Thurley Heaven in a Wild Flower – Alan Titchmarsh Alone on the Moors – Mark Tully Taking Flight – Charlie Waite The Dawn Chorus – Chris Watson Beautiful Evenings – Francis Wheen Alfred's Cakes – Michael Wood My Adventure Playground – Benjamin Zephaniah |
| Notes | Transworld Publishers A Black Swan Book First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Think Books Black Swan edition published 2010 Copyright © Pan Macmillan Ltd, CPRE, Think Publishing 2008. This 2010 edition copyright © CPRE and Transworld Publishers Set in 11/13pt Melior by Kestrel Data, Exeter, Devon. Black Swan Books are published by Transworld Publishers Printed in the UK by CPI Cox & Wyman, Reading, RG1 8EX. Cliffs © Jon Arnold/JAI/Corbis. Postbox © fine art / Alamy All royalties to CPRE |
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