Ancestral Voices
Lees-Milne, James
£12.00
Ancestral Voices
Diaries 1942 - 1943
James Lees Milne
Published by Clocktower Paperbacks – Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd, Norwich, 2003. Paperback Approx 23.5cm H x 15.5cm W. vii, 302pp.
Book condition: Used. Very Good. Some marking to the outer page edges and the last blank page, as well as the odd minor mark within. No tears, annotations, or pen markings.
In this first volume of James Lees-Milne’s addictive diaries, the author, discharged from the Army for health reasons, has returned to work for the National Trust – then with a membership of only 6,000 and owning only about half a dozen houses open to the public. Staff and offices have been removed to West Wycome Park, in Buckinghamshire. He describes his employment as a ‘combination of hard labour and sheer fun’. It certainly involves some quirky encounters.