Shropshire: A Memoir of the English Countryside
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0892965169 / Publisher: Grand Central Pub, March 1993
The author shares her memories of growing up in Shropshire, discusses the region's history, and describes villages, ruins, and points of interest
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Shropshire is Ellis Peters country - England's hauntingly beautiful border shire that is the glorious real world of her medieval mysteries. Now, with the help of Roy Morgan's fifty-five evocative color photographs, she takes us on a guided tour through this land of market towns and picturesque villages, ruined castles and Benedictine abbeys, Norman churches and the heather-covered moorlands that huddle beneath rocky crags and ancient hills.All the intriguing scenes and memorable landscapes of Ellis Peters's wonderful books come to life as she takes you to her favorite places. Here is the Roman road on the flank of the Long Mountain, with its grand stormy view of the river below, that she walked so often when she wrote The Heaven Tree and its sequels. Here too is the town of Shrewsbury on the River Severn, which Ellis Peters visited as a small child. Remaining indomitably medieval and Elizabethan to view, it is not only the historic site where Henry Hotspur fell in the Battle of Shrewsbury, but the actual setting for the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter and St Paul featured in Ellis Peters's beloved Brother Cadfael mysteries.
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