Sir – Chris Koenig’s article (History Man, April 25) rather gives the impression that my book, No Particular Hurry, is devoted to Arthur Evans.
In fact, he features as only one of some 30 British travellers from the Victorian and Edwardian period who wrote about their travels in Finland.
Of these, Evans was one of only three who went to Finnish Lapland, where (in 1873), unlike south and central Finland, there were no railways, hardly any roads, and no hotels. It was at times so primitive that Evans even described one of his guides as ‘the Missing Link’!
Tony Lurcock, Oxford
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