Root into Europe: Henry Root's Journal of a Fact-Finding Mission - Travel Memoir & European Exploration Guide for History Enthusiasts

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ROOT INTO EUROPE. Henry Roots Journal of a Fact-finding Mission - For those of you who have yet to make the acquaintance of this prodigious horn me de lettres, allow me to elucidate. Having made his pile in the wet fish business, Mr Root lives out a rather active semi-retirement at The Anchorage, Lakeside Avenue, Esher, Surrey. He is a bastion of all things English - for England read Esher - and has not travelled abroad since being short-changed in Wales in 1958. He is also an unsolicited adviser, usually by post, to the great and the glamorous. It comes as little surprise, then, that Mr Root should appoint himself the Prime Ministers Man Without Portfolio, with a brief to comb Europe on the lookout for unsavoury Continental habits which may slip across the Channel in the wake of European union ... The ensuing road commentary reads like a script of Whickers World re-edited by the Monday Club. Leo Burley, Literary Review Root into Europe is a marvel. It takes a special kind of genius to be hilariously funny and dead accurate at the same time. - We all know a Henry Root. Roger Woddis Easily the most absurd and funny character to have emerged from the Thatcher years, with the possible exception of Cecil Parkinson. Craig Brown, Sunday Times William Donaldsons preposterous invention, Henry Root, personifies one of the greatest practical jokes since the war. Richard Compton Miller, Daily Express He doesnt represent the true Esherite. Mrs Christine Peel, Councillor for the Esher Ward of Elmdridge Borough Council The Root Into Europe television series is produced by Aspect Film and Television Production Ltd for Central Independent Television