|
|
- OUT OF PRINT -
This book is no longer available from Global Investor.
|
- Product code: 5377
- ISBN: 0330343971,
ISBN13: 9780330343978,
196 pages, hardback
Published by Picador in 1908
Rate this book... Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast) |
Description of A Motor Flight Through France |
Edith Wharton's travel writing, though less well-known than her fiction , exhibits the same remarkable combination of graceful description and acute, ironic observation.
In A Motor-Flight through France, first published in 1908, Wharton takes pleasure in the novelty of the motor car, and the freedom it gives her to choose her own route, unlike travelling by train. As a motorist she gains, 'the truest initiation of travel, the sense of continuity, of relation between districts.' She is aware that speed makes her journeys very different form the leisurely progress of previous travellers, and that she might miss some details, but points out that 'opportune' punctures provide frequent occasions to look around in unexpected places.
Her observations are witty and personal - the Gothic tomb of the cardinals at Rouen inspires a digression on the subject of noses - and like her occasional passenger, Henry James, she is intelligently appreciative of both architecture and scenery, though not always uncritical. Above all, Wharton believes that the traveller must have 'reverence for the accumulated experiences of the past' and is conscious that she comes from 'a land that has undertaken to get on without the past, or to regard it only as a feature of aesthetic interest, a sight to which one travels rather than a light by which one lives.'
|
|
|
|
Contents of A Motor Flight Through France |
Part One
1. Boulogne to Amiens
2. Beauvais and Rouen
3. From Rouen to Fountainebleau
4. The Loire and the Indre
5. Nohant to Clermont
6. In Auvergne
7. Royat to Bourges
Part Two
1. Paris to Poitiers
2. Poitiers to the Pyrenees
3. The Pyrenees to Provence
4. The Rhone to The Seine
Part Three
1. A Flight to the North-East
|
Related CategoriesCoffee table books
Bulk buying
| If you need bulk copies of A Motor Flight Through France, or are interested in opening a corporate account, please contact us. |
|
|
Shopping basket
