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Excerpt from Siam Dear friend, - It was during your Governor ship - made notable by your so admirable talents - that last I visited Cambodia. And I owe it to your charming courtesy that I was able in a few short days to penetrate as far as Angkor. May I ask, then, that you will accept the dedication of this little narrative, as a token of my affectionate remembrance, and also of my esteem? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundr...

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Excerpt from Between Two Opinions: Or the Romance of a Saphi I. In descending the coast of Africa, after passing the southern extremity of Morocco, one travels for several days and nights in sight of an interminable country of desolation. It is the Sahara, the great "sea without water, " which the Moors also call "Beled-el-ateuch, " the land of thirst. These shores of the desert are five hundred leagues long, yet there is no harbor for the ...

Excerpt from Lives of Two Cats The two cats whose histories I am about to write are associated in memory with comparatively happy years of my life, - years scarce past by the dates they bear, but years already seeming in the remote past, borne away by the frightfully accelerating speed of time, and which, placed beside the gray to-day, bear tints of early dawn or last rosy light of morning. So fast our days hasten to the twilight, so fast our...

Excerpt from Madame PruneTo my good companions of the Redoutable, in memory of their true comradeship during our twenty-two months' voyage, I dedicate this book, in which I have aimed at recording only some few of the things which amused us, without laying stress upon our fatigues and our labours.Throughout it is but surface-skimming, written from day to day, nearly three years ago, before the Japanese had yet begun to Sprinkle with their bloo...

Excerpt from War But let me invoke the other name I bear. The average man is not as a rule well versed in Naval Regulations. Will it not, then, be a bad example in our dear coun try, where everyone is doing his duty so splendidly, if Pierre Loti is to serve no useful end The exercise of two profes sions places me as an chicer in a some what exceptional position, does it not 7 Forgive me then for soliciting a degree of exceptional and indulgen...

Excerpt from From Lands of Exile I dedicate this to the memory of a noble and exquisite woman, whose never-to-be-forgotten image rises before me, strangely vivid, whenever I have time to think. These notes from the far away Yellow Land were originally written for her aloqe, I used to send them to her out of the distance, as a sort of chat to amuse her during the long, weary months while she was slowly fading out of life - slowly and with a s...

Excerpt from A Spahi's Love-Story: From the French of Pierre Loti Member of the French Academy A very eminent French critic writing, some twenty years ago about the half-dozen novels which Pierre Loti had then published confessed his inability to analyse the very deep impression they had made on his mind and acknowledged that his critical conscience was much disturbed by the phenomenon. "The greatest masterpieces of literature have never tro...

Excerpt from Carmen Sylva: And Sketches From the Orient During my wanderings, I once chanced to spend a few days with a fairy, in an enchanted castle. The distant sound of a horn in the forest depths invariably brings back to my mind the most trivial incidents of this visit. The reason was that the fairy's castle lay in the very heart of a densely wooded forest in which the distant blasts of martial trumpets were constantly heard resounding...

Excerpt from The Marriage of Loti (Rarahu) Rarahu was born in January, 1858, in the island or bora-bora, in 16° south latitude and 154° west longitude. At the moment when this tale begins she had just completed her fourteenth year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books use...

Excerpt from A Child's Romance, Vol. 1 So I make no attempt to write so tedious a tale. I will only record, without order or connec tion, certain moments which struck me strangely - struck me so that to this day I remember them with perfect clearness - now, when I have already forgotten so many poignant incidents, so many places, and adventures, and faces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and class...

This account of Loti's experiences in China first appeared in the form of letters written to the 'Figaro' from notes taken on the spot while he was serving on a French warship. Published in book form in 1902.

Excerpt from The SaharaSolitude succeeds solitude with mournful mono tony, shifting sandhills, vague horizons - and the heat grows each day more intense.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the origi...

Excerpt from Propos D Exil De ces lettres, qui l'avaient amusée, est sorti ce livre, aussi dépareillé que les jours de ma vie. Depuis un peu plus d'une année, elle repose dans la terre, c'est déjà bien tard sans doute pour venir parler d'elle, - même à ces gens choisis, aristocratie de naissance ou de talent, dont elle était entourée comme d'une cour. Je voudrais, moi, essayer de graver ses traits qui s'en vont, comme ceux de tous les morts...

Excerpt from Discours de Réception de Pierre Loti: Séance de l'Académie Française du 7 Avril 1892, À Octave Messieurs, Je crois que jamais discours moins académique et moins digne de ce nom n'aura été écouté sous cette coupole solennelle. Peut-être, en venant recevoir l'officier que vous avez bien voulu distinguer à son bord, êtes-vous préparés aux étonnements que vous causera sa parole très novice, et à l'indulgence qu'il ose attendre de ...

This vintage book contains Pierre Loti's 1914 novel, "Siam". In this book, Loti paints a picture of his journey from Saigon into the interior, from the flooded river Mekong to the thick forest and the ruins of Angkor-Thom within. This fascinating book will greatly appeal to lovers of interesting travel writing, and will be of special interest to fans and collectors of Loti's work. Pierre Loti (1850 - 1923) was a French author and officer in th...

His clothes were blood-stained, his shirt in tatters, and in his head there were still the fumes of alcohol. A mist was before his eyes, and it was with difficulty that he read the letter... The poor, confiding letter touched his heart, he kissed it fervently, and began to weep. Then he swore he would never drink again, and as the habit had not yet a strong hold on him, it was easily broken. -from "XIX: Francoise Peyral to Her Son" Calle...

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Auf der Rückreise von Indien, wo er ein Kommando gehabthatte, ging Louis Marie Julien Viaud in der am Persischen Golf gelegenen Hafenstadt Bandar Bushehr an Land und trat am 17. April 1900 mit einer Begleitkarawane eine Reise zu Pferd durch das vormoderne Persien zur Zeit der Herrschaft von Muzaffar ad-Din Schah (1896-1907) an. Die Reise führte ihn über Shiraz, Isfahan ab hier in einer Kutsche und Teheran bis nach Bandar Anzali am Kaspischen M...

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