Download or read book Our Common Land (and Other Short Essays) (Classic Reprint) written by Octavia Hill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Common Land (and Other Short Essays) Probably few persons who have a choice of holidays select a Bank holiday, which falls in the spring or summer, as one on which they will travel, or stroll in the country, unless, indeed, they live in neighbourhoods very far removed from large towns. Every railway station is crowded; every booking-office thronged; every seat - nay, all standing room - is occupied in every kind of public conveyance; the roads leading out of London for miles are crowded with every description of vehicle - van, cart, chaise, gig - drawn by every size and sort of donkey, pony, or horse; if it be a dusty day, a great dull unbroken choking cloud of dust hangs over every line of road. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.