Download or read book Bridle Roads of Spain A Journey from Gibraltar to the Pyrenees in 1852 written by George Cayley and published by . This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think of the words forgotten classic, then look at this book. For resting under the words Bridles Road of Spain is the most beautifully written equestrian travel account of the 19th century. Even in that age of bold and prolific Long Rider authors, no other work enjoyed this book s unique mixture of dashing exploits and enchanted writing. For this was no mere boy s own adventure. Rather, it was the keen-eyed memoir of a mounted poet, whose unique journey recorded a beloved country and then passed into literary oblivion itself. Oh, to be twenty-five, young and in love. For that was what George Cayley was, when he set out in 1852 to ride across one of the most romantic countries in the world. Accompanied by a fellow wandering spirit, the young Englishmen donned the dashing clothes of caballeros, bought two fiery steeds called the Moor and the Cid, then never looked back. Travellers seldom realize they are witnessing the passing of an age. Yet having just arrived from England, with its enthusiastic embrace of the mechanical marvels of the Victorian age, Cayley appreciated and wrote about the still-tranquil life he discovered in Spain. A student of the classics, he wrote movingly about the landscape before the intrusion of the motorized age. The young horseman saw no trains, just lonely mountains. He found few good roads, but plenty of sun-swept villages. He enjoyed scanty fare, but mixed with jubilant people. His journey took him through a slumbering Espana, from brooding Gibraltar, past glorious Granada, round Ronda, across Segovia and on to the peaks of the Pyrenees. Thus, it was while he was intoxicated with the magic of Spain, that Cayley stumbled on the birthplace of that country s greatest literary work of art. At the village of Argamasilla del Alba, the young writer made a pilgrimage to the cellar where Don Quixote had been written. It was there, in a damp, underground cell that Miguel Cervantes had penned the magnificent novel, while draped in chains. The words Cayley wrote about Cervantes and Don Quixote serve as a signpost to us today. Rare heart, bright focus of human sympathies, which in one book couldst stuff so much good-fellowship, and wit, and truth, that all thy fellow-men, generation after generation, must go on reading it for ever and a day; while every one of the millions who read, feels towards thee as a personal friend, the Englishman wrote about the Spaniard. Those kind words, written to enshrine the deeds of his fellow author, now ring true when applied to Cayley s masterpiece of equestrian travel literature.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum written by Boston Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heroic Spain written by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The End and the Beginning written by Hermynia Zur Mühlen and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Download or read book Moorish Remains in Spain written by Albert Frederick Calvert and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia Edited by J Edmands written by Mercantile Library Company (PHILADELPHIA) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South America written by James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a journey through western and southern South America from Panama to Argentina and Brazil via the Straits of Magellan.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia written by Mercantile Library of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia written by ohne Autor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Download or read book At Home with the Patagonians written by George Chaworth Musters and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Book of the Pyrenees written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1907 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pyrenees stand up as a natural wall of demarcation between two nations, the French and the Spaniards, just as the mountains of Dauphin� sever the French from the Italians. It has been remarked that these natural barriers are thrown up to part Romance-speaking peoples, whereas the mountain ranges sink to comparative insignificance between the French and the Germans. Over the Jura the French tongue has flowed up the Rhone to Sierre, above the Lake of Geneva, so the Spanish or Catalan has overleaped the Pyrenees in Roussillon, and the Basque tongue has those who speak it in both cis-Pyrenean and trans-Pyrenean Navarre. The Pyrenees are the upcurled lips of the huge limestone sea-bed, that at some vastly remote period was snapped from east to west, and through the fissure thus formed the granite was thrust, lifting along with it the sedimentary rocks.
Download or read book Cosmic Order and Divine Power written by Johan C. Thom and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity.
Download or read book The Waterloo Roll Call written by Charles Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
