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Old Books - Kent
Essentials for Local Historians, Genealogists & Family Historians

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Unknown Kent

AUTHOR: Donald Maxwell
FIRST PUBLISHED: 1921
THIS EDITION: 2008

CD-ROM £10.00
 


Illustrated & Described by Donald Maxwell

210 page book, with 119 line-drawing and 24 colour illustrations.

Book supplied as a PDF document on CD-ROM.

FOREWORD:

“To write about the whole of Kent and to give even a tithe of the sketches acquired in years of rambling about its ways would be to make a catalogue. It has seemed to me better, therefore, to leave out all reference to places when there is not room to say more than a word or two about them, however interesting they may be.

The reader, in looking through this book for the first time, will probably experience the same emotion as a certain Quaker, when in a dream he reached Heaven—surprise at not finding many old friends whose presence was confidently anticipated, and equal astonishment at the inclusion of those whom he did not in the least expect to meet. But for all this, I will be a good guide and lead him into places not easily found, and show them to him in such an atmosphere that he will see the things that are hidden. I will tell him that the loveliest glades of the garden of England are composed of slag heaps—slag heaps of the days of Good Queen Bess, but slag heaps for all that ; and I will dwell on this fact because I am an optimist believing that beauty is not only a joy for ever, but that it will ultimately prevail. I will take him to despised industrial regions and cause him to see the glamour and mystery therein of old Baghdad and the Arabian Nights....”

THE BEACON, BORSTAL,

ROCHESTER.

September 21st 1921