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Atterbury, Paul

When not appearing on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, Paul Atterbury lives by the sea in Weymouth and writes books. Subjects range from pottery and silver to the First World War, but railways and canals remain perennial favourites.

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Paul Atterbury on the life and writings of George Millar

At various times in my life, from my twenties to my fifties, I planned to travel through France by boat. As real life gradually rendered the achievement of this ambition ever more unlikely, I took to reading in a random way books by people who had done it. About twenty years ago I came across a large paperback called Isabel and the Sea. I knew nothing about it or its author George Millar, but I consumed it greedily, loving every word. It was the classic ‘through France and across the Mediterranean by boat’ book. Later, I tracked down and consumed equally greedily all the other books that George Millar had written, most of which were then out of print.

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