Everyman’s England
Victor Canning
Category: History,
A classic travelogue that brilliantly conjures 1930s Britain.
In this series of pen-portraits of England from the 1930s, Victor Canning βevocatively captures the pattern and colour of English lifeβ (The Bookseller), from Cumbria to Cornwall. Canningβs heart-warming and humorous observations of sleepy villages, pastoral scenes and busy industries are a delightful time capsule into life in England during the interwar years.Β Β
βWhat does the word England mean to you? To all of us England means something different, and yet I think there is for every man and woman some little corner which is more England than anywhere elseβ¦β
Reviews
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'Wonderful... elegant, humorous, exuberant essays'Β Guardian
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'Evocatively captures the pattern and colour of English lifeβΒ The Bookseller
