Holiday Rambles (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Wilkinson, Thomas Read

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133388110X ISBN 13 : 9781333881108

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is in response to the wishes of many friends that I have ventured to reprint these ephemera. Since my return from the United States I have had many applications for copies of the two descriptive letters which I wrote on the voyage out. Their appearance in the Manchester City News constrained me to continue a record of my movements, and led me, without premeditation, to write the letters from A merica. During the process of revision I have been pleasantly reminded of other journeyings in foreign parts, as well as of pedestrian excursions over mountain and moorland, in the days that are no more. And I have thought that it would not be an unsuitable occasion to insert one or two more of my earlier sketches, out of a rather numerous selection, as companion pictures, and to give variety. I have not gone back beyond twenty years, although so long ago as 1844 I found myself writing accounts of travel in Scotland, and since then I reland has on several occasions attracted me to her mountains and to her magnificent lonely rock-bound Western coast. In the few weeks of annual rest from the labour and care of business, I have, had much enjoyment in tramping over the mountains of the Lake Country and of the Principality. But my chief delight has been to ramble through the length and breadth of Old England ;so rich in quaint market towns, in villages and churches, in crosses, in Gothic Cathedrals, in ancient monasteries and Norman castles ;in short, in innumerable memorials of a thousand years of history ;attracted by the everlasting beauty of her cultivated fertile valleys and green pastures, rich in flocks and herds, or glowing with golden grain ;by her hills and dales, her rivers and lakes, by her white cliffs, and by the all-encircling sea that laps her shores. It is not, therefore, for lack of material for descriptions of our grand old country that I have not inse
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133388110X
• ISBN 13: 9781333881108
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 165
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