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Echoing Voices John Harris

Echoing Voices von John Harris

Echoing Voices John Harris


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Zusammenfassung

John Harris journeys further afield in the second volume of his delightful memoirs of snooping through country houses and more.

Echoing Voices Zusammenfassung

Echoing Voices: More Memories of a Country House Snooper John Harris

In No Voice from the Hall, John Harris recollected with great humour and keen observation his covert entry into empty and deserted country houses in the years after the Second World War. He now broadens his sights, sometimes straying into Europe or as far off as Malaya and the USA. We hear of Ruler Matlock who set him against formal education, of his antics during his very short apprenticeship as an upholsterer at Heal's, and of his brief yet profitable curatorship of the Grotto of the Four Winds at the Battersea Pleasure Gardens. In France in 1953 he is befriended by RIchard Penard, the great French collector. He trespasses into the Desert de Retz to find the faded glory of the China House and the Broken Column, and he experiences the Bohemian life of a student on the Left bank in Paris. At Paul Melon's Oak Spring in Virginia he is awakened by 'gangsters' ,and we read with astonishment of MI5 bugging Anthony Blunt's rooms above the RIBA's Drawing Collection. As the tales proceed, new comrades join in the snooping, and this deligthful sequel has all the gusto and enthusiasm of its predecessor.

Echoing Voices Bewertungen

'A hilarious, honest little book about dishonesty ! John Harris's forty-six potted adventures are addictive. If the death of James Lees-Milne appeared to end a chronicle of golden nostalgia, then John Harris has taken up the baton by showing us the wicked silver realties behind it all.' -- Timothy Mowl, Times Literary Supplement 20021129 'The picture of a maverick which emerges from this book is ever more strongly drawn ! Harris writes nostalgically on the romance of ruins, and compellingly on the thrill of Pevsner-bashing, the discovery of countless architectural gems, around the corner, over the hill, or behind locked gates, through a combination of insatiable curiosity, creative map-reading and a willingness to trespass.' -- Ruth Guilding, The Spectator 20030102 'Above all this is a gallery of exotic and strange characters form the world of antique dealing and art collecting -- to be set alongside the best anthologies of grand British eccentrics.' -- Marcus Binney, The Times 20030115 Praise for NO VOICE FROM THE HALL: 'Bids fair to become a cult book' -- John Carey, Sunday Times 20030115 'An intensely romantic, poignant, angry, freguently hilarious and hauntingly illustrated memoir' -- Hugh Massingbird 20030115 'The best non-fiction book I have read this year' -- Ursula Buchan, The Spectator 20030115

Über John Harris

John Harris was joint organizer of the celebrated 'Destruction of the Country House' exhibition at the Vistoria and Albert Museum in 1974. He has also published many books on architecture, gardens, the decorative arts and architectural drawings. He is now Curator Emeritus of the Royal Institute of British Architects' Drawings Collection. He lives in London and Badminton.

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Echoing Voices: More Memories of a Country House Snooper John Harris
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
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John Murray Press
20031013
256
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