In Search of England

Description

Historian H.V. Morton’s introduction to this weighty tome declares: “I have gone around England picking up any bright thing that pleased me. It was a moody holiday, and I followed the roads; some of them led me aright and some astray. The first were the most useful; the others were the most interesting.” Thus does old H.V. motor himself around these sacred isles on the King’s highway, stopping at places such as Romsey, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Glastonbury, Bath, Worcester, Norwich and Stratford-Upon-Avon, always in search of the unusual and sometimes the mystical, as suggested by the poem that opens the chapters: “Do you remember in what hopeful fear/We gazed behind us, thinking we might see/Arthur come striding through the high, bright corn/Or Alfred resting on a Saxon spear?” This 1932 hardback edition is in very good condition for its age.