Download or read book Wintering at Menton on the Riviera written by Alexander M. Brown and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
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Download or read book Wintering at Menton on the Riviera A Compagnon de Voyage with Hints to Invalids written by Alexander Menzies Brown and published by Mill Press. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Wintering at Menton on the Rivier written by Alexander Menzies Brown and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Wintering at Menton on the Riviera written by Alexander Menzies Brown and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV. THE BONE CAVES OF THE ROCHES ROUGES: THE TROGLODYTES. FOR those who find pleasure in scientific observation, this district, with its mountain chains, affords a very varied and extensive field of geological research, within a narrow area. The general formation of the locality is limestone, stratified and unstratified, sometimes rich in nummulites and other fossils. This cretaceous stratum composes the higher as well as lower ranges, which at an interval of a few miles east and west of the Menton basin is flanked by a species of plum-pudding, or conglomerate, that shows in hilly masses at those points where the lessei Alpine spurs forming the amphitheatre break boldly on the coast. Nearly midway and close to the shore, in a terminal buttress of this unstratified bed, are situate the Bone Caves of these Roches Rouges, or red rocks. This is no misnomer. The traces of iron seem to be unusually abundant in the limestone here. From the action of the atmosphere together with other causes the reddish colour it assumes is remarkable at great distances both by land and sea. These caves or grottoes are five in all, and serve to illustrate, though on a much smaller scale, the natural cavities generally, from the great Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to the Devil's Hole in Derbyshire. It is many years since these caverns began to attract attention, and to M. Antoine Grand, of Lyons, the credit is due of having first introduced them to the notice of the scientific. In 1858 M. Forel, a Swiss geologist of note, examined several of them with care and zeal. This gentleman in 1860 published an elaborate memoir of his investigations, his industry having been rewarded with the happiest results. S. Moggridge, an Englishman who regularly winters at...
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Download or read book Wintering in the Riviera written by William Miller (of Edinburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mentone and the Riviera as a Winter Climate written by James Henry Bennet and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wintering in the Riviera written by William James Miller and published by LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Example in this ebook The health of my wife having rendered it advisable to spend a winter in the South of France, I made arrangements to accompany her, and we left home in October 1876. After a short stay at Cannes and three months in Mentone, with marked improvement, we made a tour of four months in Italy, and then passing the remainder of the summer of 1877 in Switzerland, and the autumn chiefly in Biarritz and Pau, we spent a second winter in the Riviera, principally in Mentone, returning to England viâ Turin in May 1878. We had visited so many places, and seen so much while thus travelling during our first year, that it occurred to me, during our second sojourn at Mentone, to write out some notes of what had come within our knowledge which might prove both useful and interesting to others, and particularly to those who desired to winter in the Riviera. The field, however, was large, and to bring observation into reasonable compass I could only present general views—indications merely—of what we had seen; and, indeed, more than this I could scarcely have ventured upon, because I had not travelled with any idea of writing on the subject, and the notes I had kept were therefore scanty, although sufficient, with a vivid recollection of so much calculated to impress, to enable me to describe, as far as description is perhaps desirable. We saw much, and might have seen more within the time, but it was necessary to avoid fatigue. The descriptions contained in the following pages are therefore to be regarded not as finished pictures, but rather as the scenes of a moving panorama, exhibiting in succession views of the more salient points in the various places to which the reader will be taken, and depicted according to the fashion of such scenes, too roughly to bear close inspection or minute criticism. When people were compelled to travel slowly, they could take with them, and had time to read and digest full narratives of all they were about to see. It was by no means impossible to carry in the lumbering carriage, or to read during the leisurely journey, a whole library of such voluminous and now forgotten books as the Modern Traveller. But the rapidity of railway travelling has changed even the character of the guide-book, which, with more copious and complete information, has been so clipped and condensed, been made so concisely and methodically useful,—such a veritable multum in parvo,—that every other virtue is forgotten, and to take up a volume of Bædeker in order to beguile an hour, or even to obtain a general notion of a place, would be one of those freaks of which wise men are not readily guilty. To be continue in this ebook
Download or read book Wintering Abroad written by Alfred Drysdale and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Riviera written by C. B. Black and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mediterranean Passion written by John Pemble and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The only remarkable thing people can tell of their doings these days is that they have stayed at home', declared George Eliot in 1869. In Victorian and Edwardian Britain travel became the rage. The middle classes and the aristocracy seemed in a constant flux of arrival and departure, their luggage festooned with foreign labels. The revolution in transport made this possible. The Mediterranean Passion describes how the British travelled to the South and where they went. Drawing on what these travellers wrote, and what was written for them, it enriches our understanding of the Victorians and Edwardians by exploring the medical, religious, sexual and aesthetic dimensions of their journeys and illuminates an important but neglected aspect of British social and cultural history. '... combines scholarship with charm ... It could easily be taken to the Mediterranean on a holiday and read with pleasure on a sunny beach or in the shade of a church.' Asa Briggs, Financial Times 'I was impressed not merely by the range of his erudition - historical, cultural, literary, topographical, medical et al. - and by the depth of his enquiries into his subject but by the subtlety and refinement of his prose. He deals with very elusive, complex and culturally contradictory matters, upon which few, if any, could arrive at persuasive generalisations; yet he does so throughout the book, while his conclusion is a marvel of judgment, excelling even what his preceded.' David Selbourne (author of The Principle of Duty) The Mediterranean Passion was the joint winner of the 1987 Wolfson Literary Award for History.
Download or read book The Riviera Or The Coast from Marseilles to Leghorn written by C. B. Black and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wintering in the Riviera with Notes of Travel in Italy and France and Practical Hints to Travellers written by William Miller and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Riviera written by Jim Ring and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Riviera has inspired countless novelists and artists, attracted as much by its visitors as by its location (Somerset Maugham called it 'a sunny place for shady people'). But for the majority of the English, the Riviera was made famous by rumour and report: it was the scene of the romance of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson; and, post-war, became the vacation spot of Hollywood starlets. But the Côte d'Azur has a long history of attracting foreign celebrities and royalty, since the seventeenth century, when it was a stopping point on the route south for aristocratic Grand Tourists. Later, English and Scottish invalids, among them Robert Louis Stevenson, followed doctors' orders and holidayed on the Riviera for their health. Jim Ring explores these origins and the developments that took place on the coast - the impact of rail travel, of war, of celebrity and of the English. 'An entertaining survey . . . It is the ideal book to hide your smirk behind on the Promenade des Anglais as yet another roller-blading granny glides past in a leopard-sking thong.' Sunday Telegraph Jim Ring's Riviera corrals an array of vignettes of the Côte d'Azur's most famous habitués from the Romans to the Rolling Stones . . . a stylish and pleasingly gossipy overview of the region's fluctuating fortunes.' Time Out 'A highly readable history.' Guardian
