Author: George J. HamlenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Waldies
Author: George J. HamlenThe Legacy of John Waldie and Sons
Author: Kenneth A. ArmsonPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550027581
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The story of John Waldie, "the second largest lumber operator in Canada," provides insights into the world of the lumber barons and the impact of the industry on Ontario forests.
Waldie's Select Circulating Library
Author: The Academy and Literature
Author: Boss Bart, Politician
Author: Joe Mitchell ChapplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Politicians
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Illustrations of Political Economy
Author: Harriet MartineauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Frolics in the Face of Europe
Author: Iain Gordon BrownPublisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
• The first evaluation for many years of Scott as a traveller, and the first ever single treatment of all his Continental travels • Detailed discussion of his late-in-life venture to the Mediterranean in 1831-1832, drawing on fresh source material and re-evaluating evidence for his time in Naples and Rome in a new light • Deals as much with those trips dreamed of and planned – but not accomplished – as with those actually achieved: projected journeys to Spain and Portugal, Germany and Switzerland • Profusely illustrated with some unpublished colour and mono photographs from the author’s and other private collections Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) wrote frequently of his desire to travel widely in Europe. He made, however, only three Continental ventures. Two were to Belgium and Paris. Shortly before his death, he at last journeyed to the Mediterranean. His time in Naples and Rome provoked both interest and sadness: most of all, it caused him to reflect on the Scotland of his mind and heart. These trips are full of interest – but so are the many other schemes Scott entertained for wider travelling, notably to Spain and Portugal, Switzerland and Germany. In Frolics in the Face of Europe: Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel and the Tradition of the Grand Tour, all are examined in the context of the Grand Tour tradition, and in the new kind of ‘romantic’ travel that, after 1815, came to replace it. By drawing on Scott’s letters and journal, on his verse, prose fiction and the literature of travel, which gave him such a wide knowledge of the world without even leaving his library at Abbotsford, many social, literary and artistic connections are made. Events, places and personalities are linked, often in surprising ways. This book offers a fresh view of Scott as the 250th anniversary of his birth approaches.
Homes abroad. For each and for all. French wines and politics
Author: Harriet MartineauFrench wines and politics
Author: Harriet MartineauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Didactic fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Author: Harriet Martineau