{"product_id":"the-vanished-landscape","title":"The Vanished Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Johnson the celebrated historian grew up in Tunstall one of the six towns around Stoke-on-Trent that made up `the Potteries'. From an early age he was fascinated by the strange beauty of its volcanic landscape of fiery furnaces belching out heat and smoke. As a child he often accompanied his father - headmaster of the local art school and desperate to find jobs for his students for this was the Hungry Thirties - to the individual pottery firms and their coal-fired ovens. His adored mother and father are at the heart of this story and his older sisters who as much as his parents brought him up. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nChildren made their own amusements to an extent unimaginable today and his life was extraordinarily free and unsupervised. No door was locked - `Poverty was everywhere but so were the Ten Commandments.' The book ends in 1938 as the 11-year-old author queues at the town-hall for a gas mask.\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44786546278579,"sku":"9780753819333","price":460.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17477292119780753819333.jpg?v=1762803634","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/the-vanished-landscape","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}