A wealth of information on the physical and economic geography of the British Isles is packed into this book. With facts, it also provides information on the history, customs, people, plants and animals of the regions that form England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland...
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies ...' A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagans California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetica..