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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes / Robert Louis Stevenson. - Oxford : Beaufoy Books, 2010. - 95 s. ; 20 cm.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894).

Temat

Język angielski Francja

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Literatura podróżnicza angielska

Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood visits to remote Scottish lighthouses, and he spent much of his life fleeing the rigours of cold climes and social orthodoxy. Along the way he canoed through Belgium and France, booked passage to and across America, and finally famously settled in Samoa in the South Seas. The walking trip that Stevenson describes in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) was taken when the nascent author was still in his twenties and pining for a lost love. Accompanied by Modestine, the eponymous donkey he hired to carry his camping gear, the journey proved both challenging and charming. The book is infused with all of the qualities that make Stevenson the most popular of writers: humour and humanity, poetry and perspicacity, ebullience and intelligence.

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Following the Equator / Mark Twain. - Oxford : Beaufoy Books, 2010. - XVIII, 539 s. : il. ; 20 cm.

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Twain, Mark (1835-1910).

Temat

Język angielski Podróże dookoła świata

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Literatura podróżnicza amerykańska

Mark Twain enjoyed immense public popularity during his lifetime, and was already one the best-known authors in America when, in 1895, he set out on a worldwide lecture tour, undertaken to help him recover from bankruptcy following the failure of his publishing company. Starting in Paris, he journeyed across America to Vancouver, and thence, via Hawaii and Fiji, to Australia and New Zealand, in both of which countries he travelled widely. At the end of the year, he sailed from Sydney to Colombo, and became captivated by the Indian sub-continent, its people and their customs. Arriving in South Africa 4 months after the Jameson Raid, he had ample opportunity to employ his acerbic wit on the deteriorating relationship between the British and the Afrikaaners. Following the Equator is the fifth and most interesting of Twainĺs travel narratives, and the one that most bears out the declaration that he once wrote to his mother : ôI am wild with impatience to move ľ move ľ Move !ö

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In Morocco / Edith Wharton. - Oxford : Beaufoy Books, 2010. - X, 129 s. ; 20 cm.

Autor

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937).

Temat

Język angielski Maroko

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Literatura podróżnicza amerykańska

Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. In Morocco is the classic account of her expedition. A seemingly unlikely chronicler, Wharton, more usually associated with American high society, explored the country for a month by military vehicle. Travelling from Rabat and Fez to Moulay Idriss and Marrakech, she recorded her encounters with Moroccoĺs peoples, traditions and ceremonies, capturing a country at a moment of transition from an almost unknown, roadless empire to a popular tourist destination. Her descriptions of the places she visited ľ mosques, palaces, ruins, markets and harems ľ are typically observant and brim with colour and spirit, whilst her sketches of the countryĺs history and art are rigorous but accessible. This is a wonderful account by one of the most celebrated novelists and travel writers of the 20th century and a fascinating portrayal of an extraordinary country.

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