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A book of the Pyrenees

A book of the Pyrenees

Baring-Gould, S.

Paperback

Travel WritingGeneral World HistoryItaly

ISBN10: 9353800048
ISBN13: 9789353800048
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Step into the high passes where France and Spain meet, and let S. Baring-Gould guide you through a Pyrenees of stone, story, and stubborn human life. The border mountains still sing. A Book of the Pyrenees blends victorian travel literature with keen geographical description essays: routes and ridges, villages and pilgrim ways, the play of weather across mountain scenery and valleys. Baring-Gould writes as a curious walker and a trained observer, shaping a regional history travelogue that moves easily from landscape to people, from architecture to agriculture, from dialect to devotion. Along the way, pyrenees folklore and legends surface beside local history and customs, giving the French Pyrenees travel experience its full depth and oddness. These pages belong with the best European travel classics and 19th century travelogues, not only for what they record, but for how they listen. It suits the armchair traveller and the serious rambler: a portrait of passes, spas, shrines, and market towns, and of the borderland character shaped by trade, faith, and altitude across the France Spain borderlands. For readers, it is immersive, intelligent, and richly grounded; for collectors, it is a classic travel literature collection anchor from a notable Victorian antiquary whose work helped popularise regional culture and belief. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike, and a public domain reprint edition worthy of the France-Spain borderlands.

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