The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

VIOLET CLIFTON is a lady with a past. From the vivid threads of her remembrance she has spun the story of a questing Englishman, a traveler and adventurer, who feared no one, who knew the world inside and out, and who courted her as passionately as he did danger. It is seldom given to a woman to write so well about her husband.