HOW ENGLAND MADE THE ENGLISH

This intriguing and witty book explains how our national characteristics - our sense of humour, our hobbies, our favourite foods, and our behaviour with the opposite sex - are all defined by our nation's extraordinary geography, geology, climate, and weather. You’ll learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; why the Midlands became the home of the British curry; and many other curious facts.