Travelling south from the Scottish border, Bates seeks out the places that English literature made famous: the ballad country of Cumberland, Wordsworth’s Lake District and its rush-bearings, the industrial Midlands, Shakespeare’s Warwickshire, the Cotswolds and Oxford, the Severn valley, and on to the far tip of Cornwall, with the comic mishaps of English railways along the way.
A learned, good-humoured companion for literary pilgrims. Download the free EPUB.