As the Crow Flies: From Corsica to Charing Cross

A collection of travel sketches and letters recounts journeys across Mediterranean and British locales, offering vivid impressions of Corsica, the Riviera and San Remo, Italianate cityscapes and Napoleonic lore, then shifting to English scenes—Devonshire market towns, Oxford, the littoral, Windsor, Scarborough, the Lake District and Sandringham. Each piece blends anecdote, local color and architectural and social observation, balancing humorous encounters with reflective description. The writing favors graceful, concise vignettes that evoke atmosphere, landscape, and local character rather than deep analysis, and includes on-the-spot reportage of customs, scenery and memorable incidents.