Adlestrop
Jun 08, 2022
2 minutes
by Edward Thomas
Jack Watkins
‘Also present is his air of detachment, as if travelling through life in a dream-like state’
EXASPERATED publishers of Edward Thomas’s travel books complained that he showed scant interest in describing crowd-pleasing beauty spots or recognisable topographical features, preferring to digress into what biographer R. George Thomas called ‘the half-world that lies behind’. It’s perhaps fitting, therefore, that
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