A Traveller's Christmas

This seasonal anthology collects prose and verse about Christmas spent on the move or away from home rather than at a single hearth. Extracts are grouped under headings such as home and away, Christmas at sea, foreign lands, seasonal feasts, remote places, and wartime or other danger. Contributors range from novelists and poets to explorers, soldiers, and diplomats; the pieces describe ships, camps, foreign cities, and tables far from England. The volume is a sequence of short encounters with midwinter travel, not a continuous narrative. It treats Christmas as a date that travellers keep, or fail to keep, in other climates.

Bound in red cloth with a colour printed white paper cover. Blue slipcase.