The English national character is principally an accident of geography and weather. In How England Made the English, Harry Mount scours the length and breadth of the country to find the curiosities, idiosyncrasies and peculiarities that have made us who and what we are.
Harry Mount is the author of Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, his best-selling book on Latin, and A Lust for Window Sills - A Guide to British Buildings. A journalist for many newspapers and magazines, he has been a New York correspondent and a leader writer for the Daily Telegraph. He studied classics and history at Oxford, and architectural history at the Courtauld Institute. He lives in north London.
A lovely book, very engaging and easy to read. There are chapters
on weather and soil and stone, on the history of hedges or the
making of suburbia, all of them infectious did-you-knows. Mount is
a natural and enthusiastic sharer of knowledge
*Evening Standard*
Charming and nerdily fact-stuffed
*Guardian*
Lively, a delight. Mount's paragraphs explode with information . .
. I love all this, want more, and am given it. The sort of book, in
its temperament and in its detail, that has helped to make England
English
*Spectator*
Mount is as perceptive as he is obsessive, and time and again he
skewers with unfailing accuracy some aspect of our national
character
*Mail on Sunday*
'Fascinating. Mount's an intelligent, funny and always interesting
companion
*Daily Mail*
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