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Overview
Fans of Spain and travel literature will very much enjoy Gautier's account of his five-month journey of 1840, which was written in installments to the journal La Presse. The beautifully observed accounts of the people, places, art, architecture, food and culture vie with Henry Adams' account of Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres. The account is presented in the 1926 translation of Catherine Alison Phillips. Robert Snell provides a short introduction to this edition.Annotation © Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Synopsis
Fans of Spain and travel literature will very much enjoy Gautier's account of his five-month journey of 1840, which was written in installments to the journal La Presse. The beautifully observed accounts of the people, places, art, architecture, food and culture vie with Henry Adams' account of Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres. The account is presented in the 1926 translation of Catherine Alison Phillips. Robert Snell provides a short introduction to this edition.
Annotation © Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Library Journal
Gautier was a big wheel in the French Romantic movement when he was contracted by a journal to chronicle a tour of Spain. He threw himself into the assignment with zeal, scouring the country for five months and rubbing elbows with rich and poor alike. He puts forth his observations on just about every subject in this 1945 volume. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.