Root Around Britain

Following "Root Into Europe" - his fact-finding mission into the ways of foreigners - Henry Root, retired wet-fish merchant and pillar of Esher society, turns his attention to Britain. He catalogues many of the people, places and things which he believes make Britain great.

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Conveniently arranged in alphabetical order, from Abstractions (you'll find them on the Continent, of course') to Weather, Root Around Britain tells the story of a quest. A quest for the essence of Englishness; a quest for a new television series which Mr Root can sell to the fat man in Birmingham; a quest for a peerage and the right way to pay for it ('old money' or 'new money'?); and, finally, a quest for the means to humiliate a nosy neighbour. What could be more English than that?