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Looking to close a travel-writing gap of over a hundred years, H. V. Morton goes IN SEARCH OF SCOTLAND, a land to which he is a complete stranger. The result is a characteristically engaging adventure in a landscape at turns 'enchanted' and 'without mercy'. Amongst many entertaining encounters, he describes a 'sincere Scottish breakfast' served beneath a portrait of Queen Victoria, sings Jacobite rebel songs late into the night at a hotel in Fort Augustus and comes across 'the most grotesque signpost in the British Isles': 'The Village of Glencoe Scene of The Famous Massacre Teas and Refreshments, Tobacco and Cigarettes' Anecdotal, leisurely, full of character and event, insight and information, this is travel writing of the very highest order.

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'The master of his genre, often imitated but never matched. His books are genuine classics' Jan Morris

""" 'The master of his genre, often imitated but never matched. His books are genuine classics' Jan Morris"""

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H. V. Morton was born in 1892 in Ashton-under-Lyme. A Fleet Street reporter, he fought in the First World War and was present at the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb. One of the century's most popular travel writers, he published travelogues from Spain, Italy and the Middle East as well as the famous series on the British Isles. After the Second World War Morton moved to a farm in South Africa, where he died in 1979.

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