Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
By: Gail Simmons
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An old map. A lost pilgrimage route. A journey in search of our walking heritage. When Henry VII…
Want to ReadIf you liked the history plot in Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past by Gail Simmons , here is a list of 15 books like this:
1. Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.08
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
The song. That’s what apprentice wizard and London Metropolitan Police Constable Peter Grant fi… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2) book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
"He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way."-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
" Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards , I thought. For they are soggy and hard to light. "-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
"First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it."-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
"It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind."-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)
2. In Search Of England
By: Jan Morris , H.V. Morton
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Currently in its 40th printing with its original publisher in the UK, this is the book that one Bri… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Jan Morris's In Search Of England book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
"There comes a moment in all travel when you know that you have really started. It may be weeks before you start or weeks after you have started; it is a spiritual emotion, a turning towards the futur…"-Jan Morris, In Search Of England
"I gave way to a wave of home-sickness that almost shames me now when I recollect it. I find it impossible in cold blood, and at this distance, to put into words the longing that shook me. I have forg…"-Jan Morris, In Search Of England
"All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and take farewell according to their nature. This is a full …"-Jan Morris, In Search Of England
"What an amazing thing is the coming of spring to London. The very pavements seem ready to crack and lift under the denied earth; in the air is a consciousness of life which tells you that if traffic …"-Jan Morris, In Search Of England
3. Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for 29 years and cove… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Tim Mackintosh-Smith's Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
4. A Field Guide to Getting Lost
By: Rebecca Solnit
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- nature
5. The Words in My Hand
By: Guinevere Glasfurd
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Words in My Handis the re-imagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th-century Amst… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Guinevere Glasfurd's The Words in My Hand book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
6. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robert Macfarlane's The Living Mountain book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
7. Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.16
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
A mutilated body in Crawley. Another killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil; an … read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4) book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
"Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard."-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
"In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold."-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
"This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever “it"-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
"I had found the upper limit of my courage. Fortunately for me, there is no known lower limit to human stupidity."-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)
8. One Man and His Narrowboat: Slowing Down Time on England's Waterways
By: Steve Haywood
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Escaping a mid-life crisis, Steve Haywood celebrates his birthday with a trip through England's can… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Steve Haywood's One Man and His Narrowboat: Slowing Down Time on England's Waterways book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
9. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Sathnam Sanghera's Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- nonfiction
- history
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
10. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- nature
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
11. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Michael Palin's Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
12. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in V.V. Ganeshananthan's Brotherless Night book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
13. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
By: Matthew Green
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Matthew Green's Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- nature
14. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Raynor Winn's Landlines book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
- walking
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
15. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By: Peter Ross
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Peter Ross's Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
16. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
17. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- nature
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
18. One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton
By: Barbara Winton
3.85
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonha… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Barbara Winton's One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- nonfiction
- history
19. Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
By: Thomas Williams
3.75
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. As Tolk… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Thomas Williams's Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- nonfiction
- history
20. The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
By: Christopher Hadley
3.66
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? The Romans built thousands of mi… read more
Want to Read $ 19.99Similar categories in Christopher Hadley's The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
21. All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between
By: Mike Parker
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Mike Parker's All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
22. The Man in Black: Stories
By: Elly Griffiths
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This bumper collection of short stories by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Man in Black: Stories book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
23. The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way
By: Anthony Seldon
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Without a permanent home, a wife or a job, and with no clear sense of where his life was going, Ant… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Anthony Seldon's The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- walking
24. A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects
By: Sally Coulthard
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts For most of human history, we w… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sally Coulthard's A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
25. Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another
By: Nancy Campbell
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
‘It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Nancy Campbell's Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- nonfiction
- nature
26. The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There
By: Jack Cornish
4.10
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Pre-order now to discover the rich history of Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, and it w… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jack Cornish's The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- nonfiction
- nature
27. The Haven (Summer Suspense Mysteries, #4)
By: L.J. Ross
4.28
Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition
SOME LEGENDS NEVER DIE...Irish newsreader Isolde Malone has a face many would recognise; in fact, s… read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in L.J. Ross's The Haven (Summer Suspense Mysteries, #4) book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
28. Humble Pie and Cold Turkey: English Expressions and Their Origins
By: Caroline Taggart
3.25
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining and informative look at the words and phrases we use most often – and the stories o… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Caroline Taggart's Humble Pie and Cold Turkey: English Expressions and Their Origins book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- nonfiction
29. Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
By: Gail Simmons
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An old map. A lost pilgrimage route. A journey in search of our walking heritage. When Henry VII… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- walking
- nature
30. English Place-Names
By: H.G. Stokes
3.75
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
In this book, the author explains the principles according to which English Place-Names have been f… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in H.G. Stokes's English Place-Names book and Gail Simmons's Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past
