The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain
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The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain by Ian Jack
Takes us to a place of which there are only memories and ruins: the Great Britain that gave us the Industrial Revolution, a nation that led the world in feats of engineering, a Britain of empire, a place of vital cities, each with their own identity, a country whose residual presence can still be found in the strangest corners of the world.
After working on a weekly newspaper in Scotland in the 1960s, Ian Jack worked from 1970 to 1986 at the Sunday Times as a reporter, editor, feature writer and foreign correspondent. He was a co-founder of the Independent on Sunday in 1989 and edited the paper from 1991 to 1995. Having been editor since 1995, he left Granta in 2007 and now writes regularly for the Guardian. He is the author of two books of non-fiction - Before the Oil Ran Out: Britian 1977-86 (1987) and The Crash That Stopped Britain (2001).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224087353 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224087355 |
| Title | The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain |
| Author | Ian Jack |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2009-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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