Jean-Pierre Gilson travelled across England in the footsteps of the great writers and painters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: from Devon to Yorkshire and Cornwall, to the very settings of Wuthering Heights, of Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles and of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn, and to the landscapes of Constable, Gainsborough and Ruskin. Out of season, he concentrates on the countryside that is the foundation of English culture.

“I have said it before, but it bears repeating: the landscape is an extremely difficult aspect of the art form. Looking at these exceptional English landscapes, we see, almost subliminally, that they contrast powerfully and dramatically with what we can see with our own eyes. That simple fact is what makes a view of a Yorkshire dale different and memorable.” — William Boyd