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A traveller in Rome

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Dodd, Mead, Jan 1, 1957 - Travel - 374 pages

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Review: A Traveller In Rome

User Review  - Desiree - Goodreads

This was the best guidebook I've ever read. It was very informative, interesting, and led me to some great places. There were parts which felt a bit name-droppy and some that were just too detailed ... Read full review

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User Review  - Elizabeth - Goodreads

I can't think of a better travel writer -- his writing is so steeped in the history of Rome and a desire to share it with the reader, but it never seemed boring or overdone to me, and he balances the ... Read full review

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Contents

CHAPTER I
1
the Santo Bambinoa diplomatic partyAmerican Romethe Bor
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CHAPTER III
63
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About the author (1957)

H. V. Morton began writing as an undergraduate in England. By the time he was 19, he became assistant editor of the Birmingham Gazette and Express. Later he joined the staff of the Daily Mail in London. Returning home from the British army after World War I, he realized how little he actually knew his country. His explorations led him to write a travel series later published by Dodd. He has been called "perhaps the greatest living authority on the material being of the British Isles---that is to say, on their landscape, buildings, monuments, customs and history." As a devout churchman, he has also written several books on biblical personages and places. He was an experienced and worldly traveler who had a "unique talent for capturing the essence of lives long past.

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