I. Guide Books: An Introduction,
II. On Going Back,
III. Walking and Cycling,
IV. Seeking a Shelter,
V. Wind, Wave, and Spirit,
VI. By Swallowfield,
VII. Roman Calleva,
VIII. A Cold Day at Silchester,
IX. Rural Rides,
X. The Last of his Name,
XI. Salisbury and its Doves,
XII. Whitesheet Hill,
XIII. Bath and Wells Revisited,
XIV. The Return of the Native,
XV. Summer Days on the Otter,
XVI. In Praise of the Cow,
XVII. An Old Road Leading Nowhere,
XVIII. Branscombe,
XIX. A Abbotsbury,
XX. Salisbury Revisited,
XXI. Stonehenge,
XXII. The Tillage and "The Stones,"
XXIII. Following a River,
XXIV. Troston,
XXV. My Friend Jack,
Chapter One: Guide-Books: An Introduction
Guide-books are so many that it seems probable we have more
than any other country - possibly more than all the rest of the
universe together. Every county has a little library of its
own - guides to its towns, churches, abbeys, castles, rivers,
mountains; finally, to the county as a whole. They are of all
prices and all sizes, from the diminutive paper-covered
booklet, worth a penny, to the stout cloth-bound octavo volume
which costs eight or ten or twelve shillings, or to the
gigantic folio county history, the huge repository from which
the guide-book maker gets his materials. For these great
works are also guide-books, containing everything we want to
learn, only made on so huge a scale as to be suited to the
coat pockets of Brobdingnagians rather than of little ordinary
men.
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