I am still reading Words of Mercury by Patrick Leigh Fermor, which is really a compendium of his travel writing.

I have just come across a piece he wrote for the Architectural Digest in 1986 about building his house in Greece.
He starts the piece with the following words:

“Where a man’s Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is, there shall his heart be also”

Having been lucky enough to inherit exactly that edition of those volumes from my parents, and having brought them down to Languedoc and deposited them in our house there just two weeks ago I feel I understand what he is saying.