An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams af Clive Aslet (Bog)

Klik på 'Se annoncen hos forhandleren' for at se varen i vores webshop The Americans Who Revived the Country House in Britain To a modern visitor nothing will seem more British than a classic country house like Cliveden or Leeds Castle. But the truth is actually very different. That such fabulous places exist in their present form - or in the case of, say, Blenheim, survive in the ownership of the family - is as much as anything down to American money and taste. Now, for the first time, Clive Aslet's magnificent book reveals the extent of this remarkable phenomenon. Covering eighteen Americans and their houses - from the captivating May Goelet and Floors Castle in Scotland to the big game hunter Willie James and West Dean Park on the south coast - he illustrates the varied destinies by which stupendously wealthy Americans ended up owning great stately piles, and the variety of transformations they wrought upon them. Some of the marriages between aristocrats and heiresses were happy, others distinctly less so. Dowries went on new roofs to keep the rain out and electric lighting and central heating to modernise dwellings that could be as wintry as the hearts of their ancestral owners. For self-made magnates like William Randolph Hearst or Gordon Selfridge a country house was a rich man's folly - Hearst filled St Donat's castle in Wales with untold fittings and trophies but hardly ever visited it, Selfridge's pharaonic vision for Hengistbury Head never escaped the drawing board. For others, like Andrew Carnegie at Skibo or Sir Paul Getty at Wormsley, it was the chance to out-do the natives by creating idylls of baronial splendour or arcadian cricket fields. Brand: Ukendt Farve: Ukendt Stand: 60 - Vi sender din bogordre til hele landet for 49 kr. Leveringstiden er 1-3 hverdage. Du kan også gratis hente bøgerne efter køb online på vores lager på Industrivej 10 i Slangerup. Er du i tvivl om en bog stadig er til salg? Klik på knappen "Gå til varen" for at se den i vores webshop. Kan du se bogen der, er den stadig til salg. Orderly er en ny måde at købe brugte bøger på. Vi har alle vores sælgeres krimier, børnebøger, tegneserier, skønlitteratur og meget andet på vores centrale lager. Derfor kan du være helt sikker på at få dine køb - og du kan samle flere bøger på tværs af sælgere og kun betale én gang fragt.

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