Seeing Europe with Famous Authors: VolumCosimo, Inc., 1. apr. 2006 - 236 sider You might believe yourself, at sight of this Muscovite architecture, in some chimerical Asiatic city-you could easily take the cathedrals for mosques, the belfries for minarets; but the rational fa ade of the new palace would bring you back to the very heart of the West and of civilization; a sad thing for a romantic savage like myself! -from "The Marvelous Treasures of the New Palace," by Theophile Gautier From the era from a trip to the Continent was rarer but more deeply appreciated comes an enchanting literary travelogue assembled from the hearts and minds of some of the greatest wordsmiths in the English language. A Grand Tour in 10 volumes, these delightful volumes, first published in 1914, gather little-seen essays from famous erudite explorers in compact collections that will inspire those who've never been abroad to make the journey, and move those who have to pack their bags again. Volume X explores Russia, Scandinavia, and the Southeast, viewed through the eyes and prose of a panoply of extraordinary writers: Mary Wollstonecraft travels the coast from Sweden to Norway, Edward Gibbon visits St. Sophia, Bayard Taylor offers a panoramic view of Moscow, and much more by such notable voices as Augustus J.C. Hare, Sir Henry Norman, Robert Bremner, and others. (This volume also features a complete index to the 10-book set.) Beautifully illustrated with charming photographs, it is a work to treasure... and to take along on your next trip. OF INTEREST TO: armchair travelers, readers of classic literature American journalist and historian FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY (1851-1919) was literary editor of The New York Times from 1892 through 1896. He wrote and lectured extensively on history, and also edited the two-volume Great Epochs in American History Described by Famous Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt (1912). |
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THE BIG BELLS AND THE BIG GUNSBy Wirt | 43 |
THE MONASTERIES NEAR MoscowBy Augus | 53 |
THE GREAT FAIRBy Robert Bremner | 57 |
BY SEA FROM BERGEN TO STAVANGER | 113 |
TRONDJEM THE ANCIENT CAPITALBy | 123 |
SERVIAS CAPITAL BELGRADEBy Harry | 132 |
CETTINGE THE MONTENEGRIN CAPITALBY | 140 |
THE WAR OF 1912Adapted by the Editor | 147 |
CONSTANTINOPLE | 154 |
ST SOPHIABy Edward Gibbon | 161 |
THE WALLSBy Theophile Gautier | 168 |
KIEFF By Augustus J C Hare | 66 |
THE SIBERIAN RAILWAYBy Sir Henry Nor | 89 |
ELSINORE AND HAMLETS GRAVEBy Augus | 96 |
CHRISTIANIABy Bayard Taylor | 107 |
THE GALATA BRIDGEBy Edmondo de Amicis | 175 |
ELSEWHERE IN THE SOUTHEAST | 183 |
FROM THE BLACK SEA TO THE IRON GATES | 189 |
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Side 131 - Svserholt glowed in fiery bronze taster as we rounded it, the eddies of returning birds gleaming golden in the nocturnal sun, like drifts of beech leaves in the October air. Far to the north, the sun lay in a bed of saffron light over the clear horizon of the Arctic Ocean. A few bars of dazzling orange cloud floated above him, and still higher in the sky, where the saffron melted through delicate rosecolor into blue, hung light wreaths of vapor, touched with pearly, opaline flushes of pink and golden...
Side 40 - The purposed incongruity of 15 the building is seen in the minutest details, and where there is an accidental resemblance in form, it is balanced by a difference in color. This is the Cathedral of St. Basil, built during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, who is said to have been so charmed with the work, that he caused the eyes of the architect to be blinded, to prevent him from ever building another such. The same story, however, is told of various buildings, clocks, and pieces of mechanism, in Europe,...
Side 61 - Nogais are mingling with Kirghisians, and drapers from Paris are bargaining for the shawls of Cashmere with a member of some Asiatic tribe of unpronounceable name. Jews from Brody are settling accounts with Turks from Trebizond ; and a costume-painter from Berlin is walking arm-in-arm with the player from St. Petersburg who is to perform Hamlet in the evening. ' In short, cotton merchants from Manchester, jewellers from...
Side 110 - From the quiet basin of the fjord, which vanishes between blue, interlocking islands to the southward, the land rises gradually on all sides, speckled with smiling country-seats and farm-houses, which trench less and less on the dark evergreen forests as they recede, until the latter keep their old dominion and sweep in unbroken lines to the summits of the mountains on either hand. The ancient citadel of Aggershus, perched upon a rock, commands the approach to the city, fine old linden trees rising...
Side 103 - The current of life seemed congealed at the source: all were not frozen, for it was summer, you remember; but everything appeared so dull that I waited to see ice, in order to reconcile me to the absence of gaiety. The day before, my attention had frequently been attracted by the wild beauties of the country we passed through. The rocks which tossed their fantastic heads so high were often covered with pines and firs, varied in the most picturesque manner.