The Silent Traveller in London - Chiang Yee

I raced through this, a charming travel book about London written by a Chinese academic in 1938. It's lovely to read about one's home city from a totally different perspective, and some of his comments were real eye-openers, particularly in the chapter about London's statues. My only problem is the author's over-fondness for exclamation marks, a horrible tic best avoided. A feature is the unsettling sense of impending world trouble, exacerbated by asides about the China-Japan conflict and Chiang's great grief over the recent death of his brother.