Described by The Guinness Book of Records as 'the world's greatest living explorer', Fiennes has written a brilliant summary of English history interwoven with the extraordinary record of his ancestors starting with the great-to-the-power-of-thirty grandfather - who arrived with the Conqueror - right down to the present day. Unpretentiously and with a great deal of wry humour, he describes his various family members as good, bad and downright mad. Entertaining, extremely informative and clever.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 68 Spring 2013 ) |
