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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This is perfect England’ wrote the poet Edward Thomas in 1911. Thomas was writing about the Isle of Wight – standing near the centre of the Island within sight of Carisbrooke Castle. ‘It is lovely inland country’ he wrote ‘heaving this way and that with changes now smooth and now sharp… Farther away eastward is a great brood of downs and white clouds round upon round above them reaching into a cloudless blue dome.’ This was the Isle of Wight I discovered as a teenager over fifty years later when I first came on holiday in 1963. Delighted with what I saw I took a few snapshots with my schoolboy camera and returned the following year. By now I had gone to college and bought myself a more sophisticated camera with a sharp lens. Long before I became a professional broadcaster I contemplated a career as a photographer. The Isle of Wight I decided would make an ideal subject for a book. (LL)