James lees-milne ancestral voices prophesying

          Packed with solid advice and nuggets of campfire lore and hunting yarns, illustrated with thirty-four black and white photographs and six line drawings, this..

          THE OFFICIAL
          JAMES LEES-MILNE WEBSITE

          THE DIARIES

          JLM was both a prolific and versatile author.

          From Lees-Milne published a series of architectural works aimed primarily at the general reader.

        1. Ancestral Voices: Diaries Lees-Milne, James.
        2. Packed with solid advice and nuggets of campfire lore and hunting yarns, illustrated with thirty-four black and white photographs and six line drawings, this.
        3. Hardcover.
        4. The unabridged 12 volume set of diaries.

          5. Altogether he brought out thirty-four volumes during his lifetime, including works of architectural and general history, biographies, novels and memoirs.

          It is however mainly for his diaries that he is now remembered, which have been described as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'.

          Many have hailed him as the greatest English diarist of the twentieth century, and compared him to Samuel Pepys. As well as providing a wealth of fascinating detail about his work, friendships and attachments, JLM's diaries are remarkable for the sharpness with which he observes the world around him, the candour with which he writes about himself and others, his alternation of tone between the comic and the poignant, and his ability to capture the essence of a scene in a few words.

          There were in fact two distinct periods during which he kept a regular diary, separated by more than two