The Silent Traveller in Oxford – Chiang Yee

I read the Silent Traveller in London earlier this year and was charmed. It seems that Chiang’s house in London was bombed during WWII, and this book chronicles his time as an academic at Oxford during the war itself. He writes gracefully about flora, fauna and local people, and a real sense of compassion comes from his incredibly restrained asides about the ongoing conflict.

(The library copy of this was donated from the estate of the late Miss Thelma Herring. Thelma Herring!)