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Return to the Baltic

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Return to the Baltic
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Hilaire Belloc
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 153
Category/GenreTravel writing
ISBN/Barcode 9781448204007
ClassificationsDewey:823.8
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Reader
Publication Date 14 August 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Here, Belloc writes of a trip through Sweden and Denmark in 1938, a nostalgic trip taken forty-three years after his first Scandanvian trip in 1895.This volume includes Belloc's history and topography of the area.

Author Biography

Hilaire Belloc (1870- 1953) was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, and raised in England. Educated in Birmingham before voluntarily serving his military term of service in France, Belloc then returned to England to study History at Baliol College, Oxford where he graduated with a First class degree. Writing on everything from poetry to war and travel in between, Belloc has been called one of the Big Four of Edwardian Letters, along with H.G.Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and G. K. Chesterton, all of whom debated each other into the 1930s. Belloc was closely associated with Chesterton, and Shaw coined the term Chesterbelloc for their partnership. A deeply religious Catholic, Belloc wrote considerably about his faith, and throughout his literary career he was concerned with the problems of social reform. He was a political activist and an MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910 for the Liberal party, and his written non-fiction work criticized both capitalism and aspects of socialism.