Hills and the Sea

by Hilaire Belloc

Northwestern University Press, 1996
Paper: 978-0-8101-6009-5
Library of Congress Classification D921.B5 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 914.04288

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Hills and the Sea, first published in 1906 to critical acclaim, collects thirty-eight of Hilaire Belloc's essays, spanning several periods of time and travel. The New York Times noted, "[This] book abounds in sweetness and light, and one must be something more than human or something less not to find therein some congenial and sympathetic message--possibly many."

Belloc captures the essence of each place he visits--whether on the gloomy English fens, or the sunny Provence and Languedoc regions of France, or navigating the North Sea in a leaky boat. Praised for his blend of wit and philosophy, Belloc also weaves together fantasy and fact, producing portraits that take on mythic proportions.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist. He is most notable for his Catholic faith, which had a strong impact on most of his works and his writing collaboration with G. K. Chesterton. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
The North Sea
The Singer
On "Mails"
The Pyrenean Hive
Delft
The Wing of Dalua
On Ely
The Inn of the Margeride
A Family of the Fens
The Election
Arles
The New Griffin
The First Day's March
The Sea-Wall of the Wash
The Cerdagne
Carcassonne
Lynn
The Guns
The Looe Stream
Roncesvalles
The Slant off the Land
The Canigou
The Man and His Wood
The Channel
The Mowing of a Field
The Rotman Road
The Onion-Eater
Return to England
The Valley of the Rother
The Coronation
The Men of the Desert
The Departure
The Idea of a Pilgrimage
The Arena
At the Sign of the Lion
The Autumn and the Fall of Leaves
The Good Woman
The Harbour in the North

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