This essay appears in a book entitled “Clio, a muse and other essays Literary and Pedestrian”. George was an academic and historian. During the first half of the twentieth century Trevelyan was the most famous, the most honoured, the most influential and the most widely read historian of his generation. This essay is a consecrated document to be used in the formation for those aspirants of the Order of Walkers. Read it once. Read it twice.
George Macaulay Trevelyan – Walking

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