· This volume is one of several in Morton’s sweetly old-fashioned “In Search ” series, and it’s a narrative that was written as Morton takes a leisurely drive around England in the s. Published in , it’s been twenty years since the scars of the Great War were cut, and England has mostly recovered from the trauma that the war engraved on the national psyche. In Search Of England [H. V. Morton] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In Search Of England. Copyrighted in the s and a best seller in its time, "In Search Of England" gives us something more: a look at an England that can no longer be visited, except through Morton's magical prose. What intervened was, of course, the Second World War, greater and more tragic than its predecessor/5(64).
Henry Canova Vollam Morton FRSL (known as H. V. Morton), (26 July - 18 June ) was a journalist and pioneering travel writer from Lancashire, www.doorway.ru was best known for his many books on London, Great Britain and the Holy www.doorway.ru first achieved fame in when, while working for the Daily Express, he covered the opening of the Tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter. Ever since I bought a battered copy of "In Search of England" from a second hand book shop on the Isle of Wight a decade ago, I've had a deep affection for the work of H.V. www.doorway.ru I envied the freedom he had to clamber aboard a motor car to go exploring the country lanes of s England and how often I've dreamed about re-tracing his route, comparing his descriptions of the various. HV Morton's "In Search of Scotland" was first published in A year later a section of chapter two was reproduced in a pamphlet, "The Soul of Scotland", a guide for visitors to the Scottish National War Shrine in Edinburgh Castle, something which Morton said he found it more difficult to write about than anything he had ever attempted to describe.
H.V. MORTON’S ENGLAND. This volume comprises extracts from “In Search of England”, “The Call of England” and “I Saw Two Englands”. First published: Eyre Methuen, London, 5 June THE SPLENDOUR OF SCOTLAND. This volume comprises extracts from “In Search of Scotland” and “In Scotland Again”. In Search Of England [H. V. Morton] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In Search Of England. This volume is one of several in Morton’s sweetly old-fashioned “In Search ” series, and it’s a narrative that was written as Morton takes a leisurely drive around England in the s. Published in , it’s been twenty years since the scars of the Great War were cut, and England has mostly recovered from the trauma that the war engraved on the national psyche.
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