No Voice from the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper
by John Harris
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This volume recounts an odyssey through country houses in the years following World War II. Most had been requisitioned by the armed forces and, when de-requisitioned, were left to stand empty awaiting their owners' return. It was then that John Harris first discovered country houses.Tags
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Wonderful, romantic, evocative, nostalgic, melancholy tales and anecdotes of an architectural historian.
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John Harris is Curator Emeritus of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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- Nonfiction, Art & Design, Biography & Memoir, History, Home & Garden, General Nonfiction, Travel
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- 942 — History & geography History of Europe England and Wales
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- DA660 .H32 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England Description and travel. Guidebooks
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