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History Of A Six Weeks' Tour Through A Part Of France, Switzerland, Germany, And Holland; With Letters Descriptive Of A Sail Round The Lake Of Geneva

History Of A Six Weeks' Tour Through A Part Of France, Switzerland, Germany, And Holland; With Letters Descriptive Of A Sail Round The Lake Of Geneva

Bysshe Shelley, Percy

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ISBN10: 9354417272
ISBN13: 9789354417276
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Feb 15 2021
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Two young writers flee England for the Continent, chasing freedom, beauty, and a new way of seeing the world. The road remade them both. History Of A Six Weeks' Tour is a vivid romantic era travelogue of early 19th century Europe, recording the Shelleys' journeys through France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland in crisp, observant prose and intimate letters. From village roads and river crossings to the hushed awe of a Swiss Alps glacier journey and a shimmering Lake Geneva sailing journey, it unfolds as a 19th century travel memoir that blends landscape, politics, personal struggle and first awakenings of genius. At once classic European travel literature and an unusually honest glimpse of youth on a self-made grand tour of Europe, it captures a world and a relationship in motion. 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. Historically significant as an early collaboration in Mary Shelley travel writing and Percy Bysshe Shelley travel, it offers rare context for their later masterpieces and for the ferment of Romantic thought in motion across borders. Essential for Romantic literature students yet welcoming for armchair travellers, it invites modern readers to trace the Shelleys' route, page by page, through a Europe on the brink of change.

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