a journey through britain’s lost arts and vanishing trades

travelling the length of britain, from the scilly Isles to the scottish highlands, james fox seeks out the country’s last remaining master craftspeople. stepping inside the workshops of blacksmiths and wheelwrights, cutlers and coopers, bell-founders and watchmakers, we glimpse not only our past but another way of life — one that is not yet lost and whose wisdom could shape our future.

368 pages, hardback