[SignalHillHiker]

Jan Morris' review:

Morris says in the book that of all the cities she has written about anywhere in the world, none has given her more enjoyment than St. John's, the capital of Newfoundland, which she describes as "the most entertaining town in North America." She delights in finding a rum in St. John's called Newfoundland Screech, and a family clan with the name Noseworthy. She paints a memorable portrait:

"Windy, fishy, anecdotal, proud, weather-beaten, quirky, obliging, ornery, and fun - its chunky wooden streets clamber up and down the civic hills with a kind of throwaway picturesqueness, suggesting to me sometimes a primitive San Francisco, sometimes Bergen in Norway, occasionally China, and often an Ireland of long ago."