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Excerpt from Wayfaring in FranceThe peasant women of France think more of gold ornaments than fine clothes. Hence it is that in the French provinces English travellers are frequently struck by the contrast (violent to them) in the same individual of very mean garments with jewellery that is neither mean nor pretentious, but solid and good.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at...

Excerpt from France of the FrenchWhen a writer has spent a long course of years in a foreign country he needs to have his interest awakened in many things, which by force of custom or familiarity may have ceased to stir his curiosity or surprise. In writing France of the French, I have found this interest return to me, such as I knew it in the days when I was a wayfarer on the roads and by the rivers, through forests and in desert places, of t...

Excerpt from Wayfaring in France: From Auvergne to the Bay of BiscayBehind the actual - the charm of the picturesque and the attraction of an interesting and kindly peasantry strongly attached to their old customs and traditions - this Dordogne country has a history which is like a vista of romance. Especially must it appear so to people of British race. As a part of Aquitaine, or Guyenne, as the vast province came in later time to be termed, ...

Excerpt from Wanderings by Southern Waters: Eastern AquitaineI now left the Dordogne and ascended the valley of the Ouysse. This stream is one of the most remarkable of the natural phenomena of France. To judge from its breadth near the mouth, one would suppose that it had ¿owed fifty or a hundred miles, but its entire length is less than ten miles. It is already a river when it rises out of the depths of the earth. The narrow valley that it w...

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Wanderings by Southern Waters - Eastern Aquitaine is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. H...

Two summers in Guyenne: A chronicle of the wayside and waterside is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as a...

bTitle:/b Wayfaring in France ... With fifty illustrations.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million ...

bTitle:/b Two Summers in Guyenne. A chronicle of the wayside and waterside ... With map and illustrations.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much m...

bTitle:/b Wanderings by Southern Waters. Eastern Aquitaine ... With illustrations.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections inc...

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Excerpt from Wayfaring in France The peasant women of France think more of gold ornaments than fine clothes. Hence it is that in the French provinces English travellers are frequently struck by the contrast (violent to them) in the same individual of very mean garments with jewellery that is neither mean nor pretentious, but solid and good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find m...

Excerpt from France of the French The interest felt by English-speaking people-at all events by those of Great Britain-in whatever relates to France has received of recent years a stimulus the effects of which have been manifest in a variety of ways. The complete disappearance of those political causes of discord which for so long a period fostered reciprocal distrust has had, among other consequences, that of greatly strengthening in the two...

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