Available in paperback edition A wonderful travel book, where the fascinating historical retrospective of the distant past is followed by vivid recordings and descriptions of the present. History, monuments, art, society, economy, industry, people, cities, universities, personalities, models, youth – they are all there, shining with bright and dark colors before the reader's eyes. With two additional texts by the author, about England and Cyprus and about "the blue bird of freedom" which, when it peeks out from the borders of England, transforms into a blood-soaked imperialistic vulture.

TRAVELING: ENGLAND
"Written at the beginning of the Second World War, Traveling: England is perhaps the most moving of all Kazantzakis' travel books. In Spain, Greece, China, and Japan he was searching for something he already knew: a reflection of himself in different landscapes. In England, he examines something he feels is foreign, a society that fascinates him with its strict class structure and sense of history, but at the same time repels him with its lack of spontaneity and fear of emotions.
"Precisely because he found England so infuriating, because he was so bewildered by the fact that the country that gave birth to the genius of Shakespeare, and held the power of a vast empire, was at the same time this small, serene, orderly island society, Kazantzakis wrote some of his best travel notes about England – the brilliant and always profound observations of a great writer and a uniquely perceptive traveler."