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Rachel Thorpe  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Feb 2010
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TRAVEL THROUGH CAMBRIDGE
City of beauty, reformation and pioneering research
By David Berkley. Day One. 128 pages. £10.00
ISBN 978-1-84624-119-1

David Berkley’s compact introduction to the world-renowned city of Cambridge is a guidebook with a twist.

Alongside the traditional maps, photographs and travel information runs a nuanced and well-researched history of the city that sheds light on the influence of Christianity in its development. As well as tracing the monastic roots of the colleges, Berkley carefully documents the careers of the many significant Christian thinkers who passed through the university — Erasmus, Tyndale, Wilberforce, Lewis.

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