Park Life by Tom Chesshyre

Park Life by Tom Chesshyre

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If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it's that people love parks  Wherever we are in the world, urban parks are places where we can find calm amid the chaos. With fondness and humour, travel writer Tom Chesshyre recalls 50 of his favourite urban parks from across the world, in a love letter to the green escapes that bring us joy in our cities.

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Park Life by Tom Chesshyre

Join travel writer Tom Chesshyre in this charming celebration of our favourite green spaces from around the world People love parks - and more than that, people need parks. We crave greenery, fresh air and birdsong. Whether we're in Colombia or Korea, America or Australia, urban parks are places where we can find calm amid the chaos. They can also (more often than we may realize) conceal intriguing hidden histories, and can tell us something about modern life in our frenzied world, too. With fondness and humour, travel writer Tom Chesshyre recalls 50 of his favourite urban parks from across the world, in a love letter to the green escapes that bring us joy in our cities.

Tom Chesshyre's ten travel books have covered a 23,000-mile round-the-world train journey, walking the Thames, exploring "unsung Britain", interrailing to Venice, crossing North Africa after the Arab Spring, reporting on the "dark side" of the Maldives and taking slow trains around Spain. He has criss-crossed the globe for stories for The Times, the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and The Critic.

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ISBN 13 9781800070097
ISBN 10 1800070098
Title Park Life
Author Tom Chesshyre
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
Year published 2021-09-09
Number of pages 320
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.