SOUTH EAST ENGLAND Peter Sager 1 873429 09 6 £15.99 276pp 146 colour plates, illustrations, diagrams and maps 2 fold out maps full indexes practical information 205 x 105 mm portrait Peter Sager, widely acclaimed for his guidebooks to Wales, East Anglia and the West Country now turns his attention to South-East England. Sager's journey proceeds geographically from east to west. From the hops and orchards of Kent, the Garden of England, to the urbane county of Surrey full of parks, country houses and literary associations, from the beetling cliffs of the South Downs to the broad woods and heaths of the Weald of the North Downs in Sussex, from the village greens of Hampshire to the sea air of the colouful Isle of Wight, this is another comprehensive and luminous guide by the 'unsung genius' of travelling in Britain. The author, Peter Sager, was born in 1945. He is an art critic and radio editor, and since 1975 has been a reporter for Die Zeit. In 1989 he won Germany's most prestigious award for journalism, the Egon-ErwinKisch Award. He has written many books on art and travel, and lives with his wife and daughter in Hamburg. The translator, David Henry Wilson, was born in 1937. A university lecturer, he also writes plays, children's books and novels. He lives with his family in Somerset.