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Through Spain to the Sahara Matilda Betham-Edwards

Through Spain to the Sahara By Matilda Betham-Edwards

Through Spain to the Sahara by Matilda Betham-Edwards


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Journalist, poet and translator, Matilda Betham-Edwards inspired a generation of writers. Leading readers through the Dordogne to Madrid and on to the mosques and malaria of North Africa, she introduces her audience to relics, landscapes and ancient edifices that reflect a wide spectrum of religions and societies.

Through Spain to the Sahara Summary

Through Spain to the Sahara by Matilda Betham-Edwards

Journalist, children's author and translator, Matilda Betham-Edwards inspired a generation of writers. A correspondent of Henry James and a friend of George Eliot, she belonged to a literary network that spanned the globe. Published in 1868, her account of her journey to the Sahara received immediate critical acclaim for its graceful prose and intelligent insights. Leading readers through the Dordogne to Madrid and on to the mosques and malaria of North Africa, Edwards introduces her audience to relics, landscapes and ancient edifices that reflect a wide spectrum of religions and societies. A farmer's daughter, she pays special attention to the living and working conditions of agricultural communities and their struggle for survival in nineteenth-century Europe. As one reviewer for the Examiner explained, 'stay at home readers can hardly do their travelling by proxy more easily than by running through her entertaining pages'.

Table of Contents

1. Sunday at Tours; 2. The misconceptions of luggage; 3. The gaiety of Madrid; 4. Velasquez, the painter of men; 5. A Lear of cities; 6. A midnight halt; 7. 'The sweetest morsel of the peninsula'; 8. 'A boat, a boat, my kingdom for a boat!'; 9. Days in the Alhambra; 10. Pigs, vulgar and aristocratic; 11. The archbishop blesses the engine, and we help him; 12. We get to Algeciras, and are made wretched; 13. A bridal party; 14. Tclemcen, the Granada of the West; 15. Hospitable Oran; 16. Opinions, civil and military; 17. Rain.

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NLS9781108020688
9781108020688
1108020682
Through Spain to the Sahara by Matilda Betham-Edwards
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2010-09-30
330
N/A
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