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Classic travelogues, photo collections and reportages from North and South
America and the Caribbean. Vintage travel literature, anthologies, and picture
books:
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Voyagers
and Voyeurs,
by Nigel Woodhead
Travelers
in France until the Great War
An ebook compendium of highlights from the
best vintage travel writing, in 2 volumes.
Long before Peter Mayle grumbled his way through A Year in Provence, or
Stephen Clarke traced his slippery path through A Year in the Merde,
travellers from the English-speaking world were recording their
impressions of the curious customs, the strange sights, sounds and smells
of France. Complaining about the waiters, the bureaucracy, the plumbing; admiring the
cabarets, the cheeseboards and the pretty girls...
A tongue-in-cheek scrap-book of the French, and the
foreigners who clocked to their shores. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the invention of the steam
locomotive and steam packboat, European travel, for travel's sake,
blossomed into a golden age of Innocents Abroad. A new literary genre
emerged - the travelogue. Thousands set off on a Grand Tour via
London, Paris, Rome - an era of discovery that was abruptly cut short in the trenches of Flanders. Due to its
geographic position, its wealth of culture, and the eccentricities of its
inhabitants, France always stands out from these narratives as zee place to
visit…
 | A collection of annotated highlights, sometimes shocking or
outspoken, often humorous; selected from well over 100 classic
eye-witness travel
accounts of the French and their way of life (monographs, diaries,
journals, collected letters, reports, articles, travel guides), written between
the French Revolution and 1918.
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| Thematically organised, with contributions from both
British and American authors, including some of the most
famous figures in 18th and 19th century literature; novelists, travel
writers and journalists including: Charles Dickens, Robert Louis
Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, William Thackeray, Henry James,
Rudyard Kipling, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frances Trollope,
Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton...
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| Plus a colourful and eccentric host of itinerant parsons, amateur
antiquarians, well-heeled aristocrats, tutting tourists, protestant
zealots, anglophone bigots, military observers, a motley list of dons
and dandies, statesmen, mavericks, bohemians, libertines, misfits,
prudes -- and Victorian ladies of independent spirit! "A
huge read."
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| The extracts are complimented by cameos of the
original authors, historical and social context, comparisons and
contrasts with contemporary life in France. This anthology will fascinate the general reader, as well
as students of comparative literature and modern European history.
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Volume 1: Traveling to France; bureaucracy; first
impressions; hotels and gastronomy; Paris; rural France
Volume 2: Eccentricities; colorful characters; morbid fascinations;
liaisons dangereuses; coming home; the Great War |
| Price |
Each volume priced at only £ 2.25 (approx. $
3.89 / € 3.17 *)
Or buy volumes 1 and 2 combined
online now for only $ 4.99 !!
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| Available Ebook Formats |
Acrobat Reader (PDF) and Microsoft Reader (LIT),
Palm and Mobipocket |
| Page count |
Each volume approx. 250 pages A4 (PDF format) |
| Free Sample |
For free
extracts, click here! |
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Buccaneers
and Bathing Huts, by Nigel Woodhead
This book will interest anyone who enjoys, for instance, humorous travel writing,
Bill Bryson, William Dalrymple, Stephen Clarke, history (particularly
nautical/piratical), or anecdotal recipe books.
The author travels the length of the European
Atlantic coast, in search of the legacy of “day raiders”, in the
widest sense of the term, through the ages: Vikings, English monarchs,
pirates and corsairs, bohemians, tourists….
Then-and-now sketches of the major pirate
ports along the Atlantic coast of Europe. The background to present-day
relations between the English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Liberally sprinkled with recipes relating to local characters, places and
events. The author's observations are interspersed with an edited
compilation of humorous, period travel accounts. Illustrated with period
engravings and contemporary photos. PDF version
features mock parchment paper effect.
Extra
Features:
- 100+ B&W
illustrations: photos, line art, engravings and posters
- 40+ fish and alcoholic recipes, all with a nautical / buccaneering theme
- Nautical glossary of English and French terms of piratical interest |
| Price |
Only
$ 4.99 - buy online and download now!
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| Available Ebook Formats |
Acrobat Reader (PDF) and Microsoft Reader (LIT) |
| Page count |
310 pages (Acrobat), 624 pages (MS Reader) |
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