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Title: In Search of England by H. V. Morton, Jan Morris ISBN: 0-306-81105-7 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Could Have Written for the New Yorker Magazine
Comment: What a great travel writer H.V. Morton is! He reminds me of Joseph Mitchell ("Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories"), who wrote of similar experiences in and around New York City for the New Yorker magazine in the 1930's, 40's and 50's.
This book chronicles a solitary road trip that Morton took around England in the late 1920's. It tells the story of his experiences with local people and gives fascinating historical commentary about some of the sights. As such, it's got human interest, glimpses of life in rural England nearly 80 years ago as well as snippets of life in England over the centuries. Morton's writing style is simple, sincere and insightful. He makes you believe he loves what he's writing about.
He sets off from London and heads west/southwest along the coast of the English Channel to Land's End. From there he goes northeast along the Bristol Channel and then straight north to Gretna Green just over the border into Scotland ("This story has no right in this book and I apologize for writing it" he writes), along Hadrian's Wall and finally zig zags southward back to London.
In Cornwall ("There is a strangeness in Cornwall. You feel it as soon as you cross Tor Ferry.") he spent the night in a tiny bedroom of a cottage in St. Anthony-in-Roseland. "...I came here because I like the name." Prepared for the worst, he finally came across "a rosy middle-aged woman, wearing a print apron...standing at the door of a pink cottage looking at my car as though it were an unnatural phenomenon." Asking her where he might stay the night, she replied " 'I've got nothing for dinner, sir, but eggs and cream, because we have no shops, and everything is brought us from Gerrans in motor car-or else I'd gladly give you my spare room.' I told her that eggs and cream were the only things I would dream of eating in St. Anthony-in-Roseland." He goes on to recreate the evening he shared with this woman, her husband and some neighbors, talking and listening to music from the ballroom in London's Savoy Hotel on the wireless.
In another adventure, Morton arrived at Wells Cathedral just before noon and saw "a crowd whispering, standing about, sitting on stone seats, leaning against pillars and tombs,...There were charabanc (sight seeing motor coach) parties, American families, market women, farmers and their wives... 'What are they doing?' I asked a verger. 'Waiting to see the clock strike twelve!' he replied. Then I remembered that in Wells Cathedral is one of the most exciting clocks in England; in fact, with the exception of the clock in Strasburg Cathedral, probably one of the most exciting clocks in the world. It is 600 years old, and it was invented by a monk of Glastonbury called Peter Lightfoot." He goes on to vividly describe the clock and what happened as it struck twelve.
I love discovering great writers, and I put HV Morton in this category. In addition to "In Search of England" he wrote about London, Spain, Italy, Rome, St. Paul (the person), and more. I look forward to reading all his books and am grateful for DaCapo Press (and my husband who bought this book) for making this discovery possible.
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Title: In Search of London by H. V. Morton ISBN: 0306811324 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: A Traveller in Rome by H. V. Morton ISBN: 0306811316 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: A Traveller in Italy by H. V. Morton, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ISBN: 0306810786 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: In the Steps of the Master by H. V. Morton, Richard John Neuhaus ISBN: 0306810816 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson ISBN: 0380727501 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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