This two-volume biography of Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, was published with selections from his writings in 1830.

This 1971 edition contains selections from Heber's account of his stay in Calcutta in 1823-24 and his subsequent journey across northern India to Bombay. The journal is marked by a sympathetic understanding of and interest in India to a degree by no means always to be found in British writers of this time.

Canterbury Press is proud to have acquired these backlist Ronald Blythe titles, consisting of illustrated collections of the authors regular weekly column on the back page of the Church Times where, with a poets eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in the South of England. Each volume was critically acclaimed on publication.