A superb and unique copy of the Privately Printed travel diary of the prominent British businessman and founder of Burton Menswear written for his daughter, during his extensive global cruises in the 1930s. Cr.8vo.viii 344pps.printed on art paper and illustrated throughout from photo's. Bound in full diced black leather top edge gilt. It is inscribed to the free endpaper to a Mr B Bleasdale from aboard the Arandora Star February 1939 it chronicles the first leg of his international travels, reflecting his observations on global cultures, economics, and landscape as an "amateur observer" before the onset of World War II. Lord Moynihan in his his introduction states " Once again I have been reading Mein Kampf to see how much of the secret of Hitler's almost incredible success and mastery can be conveyed by the printed word. I can conceive no finer antidote to much of Hitlers vicious over-statement than this book, which tells in most modest manner of pride in the Jewish race and its immense contribution to the development of modern civilisation. In Hitler's book one senses a passion for world domination : throughout this diary one perceives a yearning for a state of universal justice " A second volume was published two years later.