Bel Mooney's Somerset

Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel
Cover of the book Bel Mooney's Somerset by Bel Mooney, Bloomsbury Publishing
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Bel Mooney ISBN: 9781448209811
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: July 20, 2012
Imprint: Bloomsbury Reader Language: English
Author: Bel Mooney
ISBN: 9781448209811
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: July 20, 2012
Imprint: Bloomsbury Reader
Language: English

First published in 1989, in Bel Mooney's Somerset she sets the tone of this delightfully personal account of her 'adopted county'. Brought up in Liverpool, she writes of Somerset with the rapture of the late convert, travelling through its towns and villages in all seasons, observing sights as various as the Minehead Raft Race or rare beakhead moulding at All Saints, Lullington; the mysterious Glastonbury Tor and the magnificence of Wells Cathedral.

She begins with Exmoor, with Lorna Doone, prize sheep at the county show, St. Bueno, the smallest parish church in England, moving on to the Quantock Hills, dotted with Bronze Age barrows and cairns. She describes the vale of Taunton Deane with it's rich red soil, and Cadbury Hill and the Somerset lore of King Arthur. We learn of the flat sodden world of the Wetlands, the dramatic beauty of the Mendips - wild, windblown trees and the 'gruffy ground' of abandoned mines. We can envisage the mud of Stert Flats, visit Burnham-on-Sea and Weston-super-Mare - a little melancholy out of season - and the accommodating, quiet, green fields and watery sky of the Eastern edge of the county. Somerset writers such as Parson Woodeforde, Coleridge and T.S.Eliot are introduced; so are characters from history - Judge Jeffries and the doomed Duke of Monmouth.

The book is designed to be read as a narrative, and covers the whole of the old county of Somerset, dismissing the boundry changes of 1974, and including, therefore, the elegant spa town of Bath.
Bel Mooney's enticing observations, her thoughts, idiosyncracies and passions, will be shared and enjoyed by anyone who plans even to pass through one of Britain's most beautiful counties.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

First published in 1989, in Bel Mooney's Somerset she sets the tone of this delightfully personal account of her 'adopted county'. Brought up in Liverpool, she writes of Somerset with the rapture of the late convert, travelling through its towns and villages in all seasons, observing sights as various as the Minehead Raft Race or rare beakhead moulding at All Saints, Lullington; the mysterious Glastonbury Tor and the magnificence of Wells Cathedral.

She begins with Exmoor, with Lorna Doone, prize sheep at the county show, St. Bueno, the smallest parish church in England, moving on to the Quantock Hills, dotted with Bronze Age barrows and cairns. She describes the vale of Taunton Deane with it's rich red soil, and Cadbury Hill and the Somerset lore of King Arthur. We learn of the flat sodden world of the Wetlands, the dramatic beauty of the Mendips - wild, windblown trees and the 'gruffy ground' of abandoned mines. We can envisage the mud of Stert Flats, visit Burnham-on-Sea and Weston-super-Mare - a little melancholy out of season - and the accommodating, quiet, green fields and watery sky of the Eastern edge of the county. Somerset writers such as Parson Woodeforde, Coleridge and T.S.Eliot are introduced; so are characters from history - Judge Jeffries and the doomed Duke of Monmouth.

The book is designed to be read as a narrative, and covers the whole of the old county of Somerset, dismissing the boundry changes of 1974, and including, therefore, the elegant spa town of Bath.
Bel Mooney's enticing observations, her thoughts, idiosyncracies and passions, will be shared and enjoyed by anyone who plans even to pass through one of Britain's most beautiful counties.

More books from Bloomsbury Publishing

Cover of the book Talking Heads' Fear of Music by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book Outrunning the Demons by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book Perfect Match by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book Shiverton Hall by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book Kerouac on Record by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book Waterloo 1815 (2) by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book Handbook of Indian Securities by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book Collisions in the Digital Paradigm by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book The Blind Astronomer's Daughter by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book The Friendship Matchmaker Goes Undercover by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book The Strangers Who Came Home by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book Homer by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book How Not to Get Rich by Bel Mooney
Cover of the book US Economic Aid in Egypt by Bel Mooney
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy