In this award-winning volume, a professional photographer and a professor of English literature-both long-time students and admirers of C. S. Lewis-have collaborated to offer a look behind this influential twentieth-century scholar, teacher, author, critic, poet, and apologist. Though it includes a chronology of his life, this is not a biography but a personal introduction, a composite portrait of a fascinating individual, set in the world in which he lived.
In photographs and text (much of it in Lewis's own words), Douglas Gilbert and Clyde S. Kilby show us the deer park outside Lewis's rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford; the Kilns, where he lived most of his life; the forests and mountains and seascapes that delighted him on the walking trips he was fond of-which later served as an inspiration for the settings in his Narnia