This collection contains some of Llewelyn Powys's finest country essays. In his introduction, Philip Larkin wrote: 'To open almost any of his books is to find him talking, in an extraordinary blend of modern English with Urquhart and Thomas Deloney, about his own life and convictions, his childhood at Montacute Vicarage in Somerset, his idle undergraduate days at Cambridge, his time as a farm manager in Africa and a freelance writer in America … the apotheosis of personality, the embodiment of meaning rather than the assertion of it, the rhetoric that is Llewelyn Powys and nobody else.'