England for All Seasons - Softcover

Toth, Susan Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345403916 ISBN 13: 9780345403919

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1998

Synopsis

Susan Allen Toth's love affair with England is a long and happy one. Now, with England for All Seasons, she will entice even an experienced London visitor into exciting new adventures, from sharing the most scenic London bus routes to bargain-hunting to out-of-the-way places and personal walking tours of eccentric museums. With whimsy and a trenchant eye, she also traverses the country outside London: the estuaries and rivers of Cornwall, the lonely beaches of Anglesey, and the wild sea-lochs of Mull.

Whether looking for literary landscapes or the most delicious sherry trifle, Susan Allen Toth illuminates the nooks and crannies of a multifarious culture, the vibrant, real England that every Anglophile dreams of finding. At once entertaining and contemplative, England for All Seasons is as delightful a travel companion as your liveliest, most trusted friend.

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Review:

Traveling with Susan Allen Toth is like journeying with a good friend who's anxious to show you her own personal England. Whether walking under the Thames in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, meeting the residents of a donkey sanctuary in Devon, echoing through the halls of a "new" medieval castle, offering advice for the "guilty traveler" or strategies for the "sneaky shopper," Toth's writing is alive with a passion for her subject. She completely agrees with Samuel Johnson: "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life," and her repeat trips to this city and the English countryside show she's anything but tired.

England for All Seasons is the third in a trilogy of Toth books devoted to the joys of travel in Great Britain. This book shows that any season is the right time to be in England, as the author relishes in the changing essences of English rain, shares her penchant for secondhand books, glories in the profusion of English gardens, dabbles in the art of "doing" a museum well, and dares the decadence of English desserts.

Toth's useful insights and tried-and-true advice is applicable for seasoned travelers and first-time visitors. Her enthusiasm prompts one to seek and to find one's own English secrets. --Kathryn True

From the Publisher:

Susan Allen Toth is a dream -- a delightful author to work with whose
books are such treats to discover. Being a person of partial English descent who's never been to England, reading Susan's "England trilogy" feels a bit like going home.

Not only does Susan take you to such wonderful spots as the "Pooh Sticks Bridge" (she tells the reader how to get there in ENGLAND AS YOU LIKE IT), but she also delivers some really handy traveling tips. I'm a convert to her "Thumprint Theory of Travel" -- spending a full week in a spot no larger than your thumb on a map.

H. Smith, Publicity

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0345403916
• ISBN 13: 9780345403919
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256