what a find this beautiful book turned out to be, for me at this particular time anyway. What an escape it proved to be. Into a better era, as promised on the cover of the book. A time and a place of wonders, all natural and all recorded by a clear vision of a better way to live ones life. At least for Sterling North, ably assisted in recreating a lost world by the artist John Schoenherr who's black and white illustrations are just stunning. Between the pair of them they conjure into being, for the length of the book, a world I previously only glimpsed in To Kill A Mockingbird and My Side Of The Mountain.
If I should ever part with this lovely book it will be in the spirit of sharing that lost world with someone else.The best off all possible worlds for the best of reasons. This book was first published in 1963 and the Era Sterling was writing about was well passed by then, so its even further back in time by now. I leu of a TARDIS you will have to settle for this lovely book. You might be pleasantly surprised, opening at a randomn page to have a silvery salmon leap from a freezing mountain stream over into the next page...
