Another recent example of mixing older material with bright colors and unimposing page counts, the Penguin English Journeys series takes a lighthearted look at the countryside from a variety of viewpoints.
1 | Voices of Akenfield | Ronald Blythe |
2 | The Wood | John Stewart Collis |
3 | From Dover to the Wen | William Cobbett |
4 | The Pleasures of English Food | Alan Davidson |
5 | Through England on a Side Saddle | Miss Celia Fiennes |
6 | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Thomas Gray |
7 | A Shropshire Lad | A. E. Housman |
8 | Cathedrals and Castles | Henry James |
9 | Walks in the Wheat-fields | Richard Jefferies |
10 | The Beauties of a Cottage Garden | Gertrude Jekyll |
11 | Country Churches | Simon Jenkins |
12 | A Wiltshire Diary | Francis Kilvert |
13 | Some Country Houses and Their Owners | James Lees-Milne |
14 | The Clouded Mirror | L. T. C. Rolt |
15 | Let Us Now Praise Famous Gardens | Vita Sackville-West |
16 | One Green Field | Edward Thomas |
17 | English Folk Songs | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
18 | Country lore and legends | Jennifer Westwood |
19 | Birds of Selborne | Gilbert White |
20 | Life at Grasmere | Dorothy Wordsworth |