Available in used condition with free US shipping on. All are brought to life through the narrative mastery of one of Britain's finest writers. Buy Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors By Peter Ackroyd. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how England's early people lived: the homes they built, the clothes they wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. He is the author of the acclaimed Thames: Sacred River. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign wars. PETER ACKROYD is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet, and historian. He describes the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of Englands prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. In Foundation, acclaimed historian Peter Ackroyd tells the epic story of England itself. Foundation (9780330544283) by Peter Ackroyd and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding of Englands history, now tells the epic story of England itself. Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more than 15,000 years ago, to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII. Foundation : A History of England Volume I Peter Ackroyd. Peter Ackroyd is arguably the most talented and prolific writer working in Britain today.' - Daily Express (UK) Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself.

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