A Book of Traveller's TalesDavid Livingstone on being attacked by a lion in Africa, Cecil Beaton on an evening with the Rolling Stones in Marrakesh, Roman Emperor Hannibal on crossing the Alps, Henry James on the Epsom Derby, John Steinbeck on trying to get out of a small town in upstate New York ... these are some of the more than 300 writers and subjects represented in this veritable Who's Who of travellers from 430 B.C. to the 1980s. |
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... letters C R O : which letters presently we knew to signifie the place , where I should find the planters seated , according to a secret token agreed upon betweene them & me at my last departure from them , which was , that in any wayes ...
... letters C R O : which letters presently we knew to signifie the place , where I should find the planters seated , according to a secret token agreed upon betweene them & me at my last departure from them , which was , that in any wayes ...
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... Letters from Madame La Marquise de Sévigné , selected and trans . by V. Hammersley , London , 1955. Reprinted by permission of Secker & Warburg Ltd. JAMES DRUMMOND : Letters from James Earl of Perth to His Sister , The Countess of ...
... Letters from Madame La Marquise de Sévigné , selected and trans . by V. Hammersley , London , 1955. Reprinted by permission of Secker & Warburg Ltd. JAMES DRUMMOND : Letters from James Earl of Perth to His Sister , The Countess of ...
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... Letters from Goethe , trans . M. von Herzfeld and C. Melvin , Edinburgh , 1957 . WILLIAM BECKFORD : Italy with ... Letters , Everyman edition , London , 1936 . PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY : The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley , ed . R. Ingpen ...
... Letters from Goethe , trans . M. von Herzfeld and C. Melvin , Edinburgh , 1957 . WILLIAM BECKFORD : Italy with ... Letters , Everyman edition , London , 1936 . PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY : The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley , ed . R. Ingpen ...
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Africa American arrived asked beautiful called camels canoe CECIL BEATON clothes Copyright crossed D. H. LAWRENCE dark desert dressed drink East England English traveller ERIC NEWBY expedition explorer eyes face feet fire fish Gobi Desert hair Hakluyt Society hand head horses IBN BATTUTA India Indian island JAN MORRIS JOHN JONATHAN RABAN journey kill King ladies Lake land live London looked LUDOVICO DI VARTHEMA miles morning mountains natives never night North novelist ODORIC OF PORDENONE passed PETER FLEMING quaggas reached Reprinted by permission returned river road rock round seemed seen ship side sight sleep South stone streets thing THOMAS CORYATE thought Tibet told took town trans trees turned voyage walked women wood writer young