Description
Currently in its 40th printing with its original publisher in the UK, this is the book that one British newspaper has called travel writing at its best. Bill Bryson must weep when he reads it. Whether describing ruined gothic arches at Glastonbury or hilarious encounters with the inhabitants of Norfolk, Morton recalls a way of life far from gone even at the beginning of a new century.
Author: H. V. Morton
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 04/04/2002
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.07w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9780306811050
ISBN10: 0306811057
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
- Travel | Europe | Great Britain
- History | Essays
Author: H. V. Morton
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 04/04/2002
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.07w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9780306811050
ISBN10: 0306811057
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
- Travel | Europe | Great Britain
- History | Essays
About the Author
Henry Vollam Morton was born in 1892 near Manchester, England. He became an international celebrity by scooping the world's press in the sensational discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in the early 1920s. His newfound fame subsequently led to a series of extraordinarily popular vignettes on English city and country life, which went on to sell millions of copies worldwide. He died in South Africa in 1979 at the age of eighty-six.