No Voice from the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper

by John Harris

Book Overview

This volume recounts an odyssey through country houses in the years after World War II. Between 1946 and 1961 the author visited over 200 houses, becoming aware of the riches they contained, which... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719561493
• ISBN13: 9780719561498
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: John Murray Publishers
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A fascinating glimpse of a "lost " world

Excellent treatment of the vanishing English Country House. Very sad but also Harris includes some wonderful commentary on local color and humorous personal experiences. A very entertaining book, full of the great names in British conservation efforts and architectural historians, of which he is one, working for RIBA. All in all a very nice little book on not only the loss of great houses but the passing of an age--a civilization gone with the winds of the First and Second World Wars.