{"product_id":"9783740810443","title":"111 Places in Coventry That You Shouldn't Miss","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Ganley, Rob \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWarwickshire, West Midlands\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 March 2021 by Emons Verlag GmbH in Germany as part of 'the 111 Places' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 240 pages, 111 Illustrations, colour\u003cbr\u003e136 x 206 x 21 | 478g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe city is a rich tapestry, home to native Coventrians and newcomers of every nationality and ethnicity. But behind the modernity, Coventry's storied past lives on in its architecture and artworks, its visionary centre and outlying council estates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book reveals some of its hard-to-find origins as a city with a major medieval influence, and the relics of its industrial boom as a centre for making cloth and clocks, cars and bikes. But it was manufacturing munitions that made it a target for the German Luftwaffe in WWII, flattening its medieval heart, and prompting the distinctive look and feel of its centre and surrounds today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt details everything from a quirky homage to 11th-century Lady Godiva, to the remnants of the walled city of the English Civil War that spawned the phrase sent to Coventry. From the remnants of the ruined cathedral to the boho Fargo village, from the origins of the influential Two-Tone music style born here, to the impact of UK City of Culture 2021 status, its all uncovered inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unusual guidebook invites the inquisitive to head off the beaten track and explore many of the citys lesser-known places.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45797014601968,"sku":"9783740810443","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9783740810443.jpg?v=1713565664","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.pro\/products\/9783740810443","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}