Tales of moorland & estuary (1953)
Henry WilliamsonRepository | Library | Shelf |
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Somerset | Somerset Studies | B 823 WIL |
GRN0198271
Publication Details
GRN0198271
Hardback
19.5cm
Illustrated
vii, 256p
The author lived for a time, in Devon.
First line:
One December afternon some years ago a young man of pensive and unshaven countenance, without a hat, wearing khaki breeches and puttees, with a coat made out of an Army blanket of fine tweed material which had been scrounged from his infantry battalion just before demobilisation, and carrying on his back a schrapnel-torn infantry pack, might have been seen perambulatiing down Picadilly towards the west.
First line:
One December afternon some years ago a young man of pensive and unshaven countenance, without a hat, wearing khaki breeches and puttees, with a coat made out of an Army blanket of fine tweed material which had been scrounged from his infantry battalion just before demobilisation, and carrying on his back a schrapnel-torn infantry pack, might have been seen perambulatiing down Picadilly towards the west.