Describes 14 houses, including Knole, Blickling, Stourhead and Cotehele which the author was responsible for bringing into the care of the National Trust. It brings the owners, the buildings and their pasts to life as the sometimes cliffhanging story of their passing to the Trust is documented.
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James Lees-Milne wrote several histories and biographies as well as two other classic memoirs Another Self and Fourteen Friends, and eight volumes of diaries: Ancestral Voices, Prophesying Peace, Caves of Ice, Midway on the Waves, A Mingled Measure, Ancient as the Hills, Through Wood and Dale and (just published) Deep Romantic Chasm. He died in 1997.
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