Hilaire Belloc takes a pilgrimage across his beloved home English county of Sussex writing as four distinct personalities, with a wide variety of songs, stories, and digressions.

An entrepreneurial businessman satirically relates to his nephews how he became the wealthiest man in Baghdad.

Hilaire Belloc takes a walking pilgrimage to Rome from his hometown in France, writing of the journey, sketching the sights, and digressing on a wide variety of subjects.

Hilaire Belloc’s thesis that the capitalist state breeds a collectivist theory which, in action, produces something utterly different from collectivism: the Servile State.