Walk in the Park

'A fascinating, informative, revelatory book' William Boyd, Guardian

Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention. From their medieval inception as private hunting grounds through to their modern incarnation as public spaces of rest and relaxation, parks have been fought over by land-grabbing monarchs, reforming Victorian industrialists, hippies, punks, and somewhere along the way, the common folk trying to savour their single day of rest.

In A Walk in the Park, Travis Elborough excavates the history of parks in all their colour and complexity. Loving, funny and impassioned, this is a timely celebration of a small wonder that – in an age of swingeing cuts – we should not take for granted.

„O carte fascinanta, informativa, revelatorie” William Boyd, GuardianPark-urile sunt o parte atat de familiara a vietii de zi cu zi, s-ar putea sa fii iertat pentru ca ai crezut ca au fost mereu acolo. De fapt, parcurile publice sunt o inventie.