Tales Of A Tent: A Remarkable Diary Of Camping Holidays In Lakeland In The Halcyon Days Before The First World War by Agnes W. Valentine and Herbert Valentine

It is an account of holidays in Lakeland at a time when people still enjoyed the simple pleasures of life, in the halcyon days before the First World War. Herbert and Agnes Mary Valentine lived at Workington on the Cumbrian coast. Mr Valentine was an Ironmaster at the Steel Works and was the son of a one-time Conservative MP for that town. His wife, a trained artist, was a member of the Housman family and a cousin of Laurence and A E Housman. The Valentines wrote and illustrated this humourous account of their annual holidays in Lakeland in a style reminiscent of Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat', a book they had obviously read and enjoyed.

Publisher:	Michael Moon at the Beckermet Bookshop
Year:	1977
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780904131147
Condition:	Good
Description:	Owner's Name inside; Large. Gift inscription on first page, dated 1979.

This image is of the actual book.

SKU: 1587911
Location: History