Download or read book The French Riviera written by Ted Jones and published by Tauris Parke. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sunlight and calm of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the fourteenth century. The Cote d'Azur has provided the inspiration and setting for some of the greatest literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. "The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers" is a reader's journey along this fabled coast, from Hyeres and St. Tropez in the west to the Italian border in the east, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way, from distinguished Nobel laureates to new authors who found their voices there. Ted Jones's encyclopaedic work covers them all: writers such as Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham, who spent much of their lives there; F. Scott Fitzgerald and Guy de Maupassant, whose work it dominates; and the countless writers who simply lingered there, including Louisa M. Alcott, Hans Christian Anderson, J. G. Ballard, Samuel Beckett, Arnold Bennett, William Boyd, Bertholt Brecht, Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Bruce Chatwin, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Ian Fleming, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, A. A.Milne, Vladimir Nabokov, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Tchekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf and W. B. Yeats - and many others.

Download or read book Travelers Tales France written by James O'Reilly and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2002 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newly designed edition, acclaimed writers who have fallen in love with France--with the food, the land, the irrepressible French people--provide a mesmerizing literary tour of this special place. maps. Illustrations.

Download or read book Travels in India written by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89) was one of the most renowned travelers of 17th century Europe. The son of a French Protestant who had fled Antwerp to escape religious persecution, Tavernier was a jewel merchant who between 1632 and 1668 made six voyages to the East. The countries he visited (most more than once) included present-day Cyprus, Malta, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. In 1676 he published his two-volume Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier (The six voyages of Jean Baptiste Tavernier). An abridged and very imperfect English translation of the book appeared in 1677. The first modern scholarly edition in English, presented here, was published in 1889, with translation, notes, and a biographical sketch of Tavernier by Dr. Valentine Ball (1843-95), a British civil servant with the Indian Geological Service. Among the most memorable chapters in the book are those that recount Tavernier's visits to the diamond mines of India and his inspection of the jewels of the Great Mogul. Tavernier was not a scholar or an educated linguist, and after his initial popularity in the 17th century his authority waned, as historians and others questioned the accuracy of his observations. In the 20th century, however, Tavernier's reputation rose, as such important historians as Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel used the detailed information he recorded about the prices and qualities of goods and about business and commercial practices in their pioneering studies of economic and social history. The book contains several appendices by Ball about famous diamonds (including the historic Koh-i-Noor Diamond now belonging to the British royal family), diamond mines in India and Borneo, ruby mines in Burma, and sapphire washings in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). A fold-out map shows Tavernier's voyages in India and the mines he visited.

Download or read book Le Road Trip written by Vivian Swift and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces an idyllic French honeymoon trip while sharing lighthearted tips and advice on how to thrive as a traveler, in a book with hundreds of watercolor and line illustrations.

Download or read book Traveller s guide through France written by Giovanni A. Galignani and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in France written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Galignani s Traveller s Guide Through France written by William Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Traveller s Classical Guide Through France Translated from the French on the Eighteenth Edition written by J. B. RICHARD (pseud. [i.e. Jean Marie Vincent Audin.]) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wicked French written by Howard Tomb and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers tongue in cheek advice on traveling to France and provides humorous phrases, including curses, to use in restaurants, nightspots, and hotels

Download or read book The Belgian Traveller Or A Tour Through Holland France and Switzerland During the Years 1804 and 1805 written by Stewarton and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hand Book for Travellers in France written by Murray and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The French Traveler written by William D. Gairdner and published by Kinetics Design - Kdbooks.CA. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First English Translation of The 1768 Bestseller "Le Voyageur Français" Translation and Commentary by William D. Gairdner, PhD Readers will find tales of arctic exploration among the Eskimos, the lives of colonists, and the ways, customs, killing, loving, torturing, and hunting of the Huron and Iroquois Indians in "Le Canada."

Download or read book National Geographic Traveler Paris written by Heidi Ellison and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated guide, Paris residents Lisa Davidson and Liz Ayre share their inside knowledge of the City of Lights. All the fabled sights are here, from the Eiffel Tower to the Louvre, with detailed information on how best to visit (purchase a museum pass, for instance, for the best price into museums). Readers will also discover a plethora of lesser known sights (secret Parisian parks and the ultra chic Avenue Montaigne among them), as well as popular excursions, including the marvellous palace of Versailles and the medieval village of Provins.

Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in France written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in France With Maps written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond the Grand Tour written by Rosemary Sweet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel in early modern Europe is frequently represented as synonymous with the institution of the Grand Tour, a journey undertaken by elite young males from northern Europe to the centres of the arts and antiquity in Italy. Taking a somewhat different perspective, this volume builds upon recent research that pushes beyond this narrow orthodoxy and which decentres Italy as the ultimate destination of European travellers. Instead, it explores a much broader pattern of travel, undertaken by people of varied backgrounds and with divergent motives for travelling. By tapping into current reactions against the reification of the Grand Tour as a unique and distinctive practice, this volume represents an important contribution to the ongoing process of resituating the Grand Tour as part of a wider context of travel and topographicalmwriting. Focusing upon practices of travel in northern and western Europe rather than in Italy, particularly in Britain, the Low Countries and Germany, the essays in this collection highlight how itineraries continually evolved in response to changing political, economic and intellectual contexts. In so doing, the reasons for travel in northern Europe are subjected to a similar level of detailed analysis as has previously only been directed on Italy. By doing this, the volume demonstrates the variety of travel experiences, including the many shorter journeys made for pleasure, health, education and business undertaken by travellers of varying age and background across the period. In this way the volume brings to the fore the experiences of varied categories of traveller – from children to businessmen – which have traditionally been largely invisible in the historiography of travel.