<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the travel writer whom Jan Morris has called "the much-loved master of the genre, often imitated but never matched." H. V. Morton peerlessly evokes the sights, the splendors, and the drama of history for tourists and armchair travelers alike.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Currently in its 40th printing with its original publisher in the UK, this is the book that one British newspaper has called travel writing at its best. Bill Bryson must weep when he reads it. Whether describing ruined gothic arches at Glastonbury or hilarious encounters with the inhabitants of Norfolk, Morton recalls a way of life far from gone even at the beginning of a new century.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Henry Vollam Morton</b> was born in 1892 near Manchester, England. He became an international celebrity by scooping the world's press in the sensational discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in the early 1920s. His newfound fame subsequently led to a series of extraordinarily popular vignettes on English city and country life, which went on to sell millions of copies worldwide. He died in South Africa in 1979 at the age of eighty-six.