No visitor to Britain?past or present?should be without this glorious guidebook. England?s Thousand Best Housesis a panorama of an ancient heritage, a compendium of a thousand delightful country houses from all periods?all of which are open to the public.Breathtaking Blenheim Palace, the monumental jewel of Oxfordshire . . . the Duke of Devonshire?s opulent Derbyshire seat of Chatsworth . . . the extraordinary baroque vision of Castle Howard in Yorkshire...