Penguin English Journeys

This page is to collect together links from another of my Penguin reading projects – the 20-book set of Penguin English Journeys.

This is a set I obtained years ago, boxed nicely, so I own all the volumes and am ready to go! Here is a masterlist of all the titles and I will link reviews as I read them!

1. Voices of Akenfield – Ronald Blythe
2. The Wood – John Stewart Collis
3. From Dover to the Wen – William Cobbett
4. The Pleasures of English Food – Alan Davidson
5. Through England on a Side Saddle – Miss Celia Fiennes
6. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard – Thomas Gray
7. A Shropshire Lad – A. E. Housman
8. Cathedrals and Castles – Henry James
9. Walks in the Wheat-fields – Richard Jefferies
10. The Beauties of a Cottage Garden – Gertrude Jekyll
11. Country Churches – Simon Jenkins
12. A Wiltshire Diary – Francis Kilvert
13. Some Country Houses and Their Owners – James Lees-Milne
14. The Clouded Mirror – L. T. C. Rolt
15. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gardens – Vita Sackville-West
16. One Green Field – Edward Thomas
17. English Folk Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams
18. Country lore and legends – Jennifer Westwood
19. Birds of Selborne – Gilbert White
20. Life at Grasmere – Dorothy Wordsworth