Martin Lloyd

A natural history of the passport. Some readers find it dry, whereas I found it very interesting. Illustrated with useful photographs and interweaving history and anecdote. It's a little dated since it was published before many of the post-9/11 infelicities of cross-border travel were firmly entrenched.

Nice to discover a really humorous writer; and about France too!

Interesting little book. Not highly scholarly, but seemed accurate. Learned some things that I've wanted to know. Good pictures

Lloyd follows the history and development of the passport over the years. Interesting read, but the juxtaposition of exciting adventure stories involving passports and the cold facts about the documents was too much to handle.