Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Views of Vanoc, an Englishman's Outlook
The ?owers of England are most appreciated by travellers, explorers, soldiers on frontier duty, and sailors on active service. Many a British subaltern, watch-keeping lieutenant, and pioneer throughout the British Empire is almost willing to swap jobs with an agricultural labourer at home. The scenes that linger longest in the memory of exiles are the girls and the gardens of England. What do they know of England who only England know When you live in an atmosphere with a temperature of 120 degrees in the shade, where it rains perpetu ally, or where you are marooned with fearsome creeping things in a gritty desert shut off from the rest of the world by a river in ?ood four miles broad or where you have to sleep on a roof in the fierce nights of the sultry season, with a pistol between your knees or under your pillow, with a sentry at the bottom of the steps to exclude the enterprising ghazi, who wishes to slit your wizen or to steal your only rifle, then the ?ower gardens of England come back as a setting to the memories of English girls. When the mosquito bites and sings, ?ies round for an appetite, and, sizzling, bites again, you appreciate the English restfulness, green orderliness, and fragrant homelikeness of English garden sights and scents. Would that I could send a basket of roses anda glimpse of the dim.
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