Cover of In Search Of England

In Search Of England

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.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked In Search Of England? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked In Search Of England. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Tiny Stations: An Uncommon Odyssey Around Britain's Railway Request Stops Shares travel, nonfiction, England
  2. Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars Shares travel, nonfiction, England
  3. Fodor's England 2013: with the Best of Wales Shares travel, nonfiction, England
  4. English Journey Shares travel, nonfiction, England

“People who read In Search Of England tend to reach for these next.”

  1. The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-39
  2. A Yank Back to England: The Prodigal Tourist Returns
  3. 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
  4. Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn

“If you want more of the same (travel about history), start with these.”

  1. My Love Affair with England: A Traveler's Memoir
  2. England For All Seasons
  3. Beatniks
  4. Rick Steves' England 2013

“If it was the England that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Three Men in a Float: Across England at 15 mph
  2. The Kingdom by the Sea
  3. Route 66 Traveler's Guide & Roadside Companion
  4. Mirror to Damascus

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Shade, the Changing Man, Volume 1: The American Scream
  2. Old MacDonald Had a Farm
  3. The Best American Travel Writing 2000
  4. A Land Called Tarot