- Published: 20 November 2014
- ISBN: 9781473513471
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
Britannia Obscura
Mapping Hidden Britain
- Published: 20 November 2014
- ISBN: 9781473513471
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 240
Original and engaging.
Gillian Tindall, Literary Review
An affectionate, alternative exploration to make readers feel more familiar with Britain.
Great Outdoors
Parker’s tour is conducted with a light touch in prose which makes learning from her a pleasure. She makes delightful connections between eras and activities, and is conscious of the value of the unknown and uncertain in our lives... At twice the length this book would have been no less enjoyable.
Horatio Clare, Daily Telegraph
[Joanne Parker’s] book is an eye-opener.
Andrew McNeillie, Country Life
Ultimately, Britannia Obscura is a book that aims to make its readers more familiar with Britain but also excited about the endless possibilities for surprise that lie just around familiar corners.
Bethan Mason, Pembrokeshire Herald
Britannia Obscura’s alternative topographies, ancient and modern, speak to our yearning for meaning and pattern. Parker reconnects these fascinating networks and lays them bare – ready for us to impose new mythologies on them in turn
Times Higher Education
This alternative exploration of the country is an accessible and fascinating read.
Rebecca Bentley, Cornwall Today
[A] lively volume.
Janette Currie, The Times Literary Supplement
This prodigious book takes us on a fascinating excursion around a Britain obscure to most of us
Daily Mail
This prodigious book takes us on a fascinating excursion around a Britain obscure to most of us. Parker digs into the constantly changing underground tunnels of caving, navigating the land’s canalways and explores the megalithic shape of the nation with its prehistoric monuments- or ‘stone fingers’- that ‘bejewel Britain like the studs and rings of body piercings’
Julia Richardson, Daily Mail
Enjoyable book…a mixture of travelogue and social essay… Vivid travel writing… Offers some illuminating historical and geographical trivia too.
David Evans, Independent on Sunday
Parker’s easy prose jaunts along with a sense of wonder and curiosity. Fascinating; and a source of endless musing.
Sarah Ryan, Trail