Petre Mais
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Stuart Petre Brodie Mais (1885 - 1975) was an English writer and broadcaster, best remembered for his travel books, many of which were commissioned by railway companies.
He worked as a journalist for the Oxford Times newspaper, and also for the BBC as a radio broadcaster. He presented Letter from America from 1933, 13 years before it was made famous by Alistair Cooke, he also presented a series on This Unknown Island.
[edit] Literary works
He was a schoolmaster and his first books were a series of anoted William Shakespeare plays, published in 1914. He continued to publish works on English literature, and even tried his hand at writing novels.
[edit] Travel books
These include:
- See England First (1927)
- The Cornish Riviera (1928 for the Great Western Railway)
- Glorious Devon (1928 for the Great Western Railway)
- North Wales (1928 for the London Midland and Scottish Railway)
- Sussex 1929
- It isn't far from London (1930)
- Southern rambles for Londoners (1931 for the Southern Railway)
- The Highlands of Britain (1932)
- This unknown island (1932)
- Week-ends in England (1933)
- Isles of the island (1934)
- England's pleasance (1935)
- Lovely Britain edited (1935)
- Round about England (1935)
- Southern schools (1935 for the Southern Railway)
- England's Character (1936)
- A.C.E: the Atlantic Coast Express (1937 for the Southern Railway)
- Britain calling (1938)
- Let's get out here (1938 for the Southern Railway)
- Walking in Somerset (1938)
- Highways and Byways in the Welsh Marches (1939)
- Hills of the South (1939)
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