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A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees. Edwin Asa Dix
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isbn 4064066227937
Автор произведения Edwin Asa Dix
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Edwin Asa Dix
A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066227937
Table of Contents
A MIDSUMMER DRIVE THROUGH THE PYRENEES
ILLUSTRATIONS.
A DIFFICULT BIT ON THE ROUTE THERMALE, FRONTISPIECE
BEACH AND VILLA EUGÉNIE AT BIARRITZ
"HERE TOO ARE THE FISHERMEN'S CABINS,"
A CONSPICUOUS ENTRY INTO ST. JEAN DE LUZ
THE CAMERA AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE
A DISILLUSIONIZING LEGEND
THE LEGEND AS REFRAIN
A BÉARNAIS MARKET-WOMAN
A SYMBOL OF VENGEANCE
DULL PROSPECTS AT GABAS
CAILLOU IN COSTUME
THE BELLES AND DAMES OF GOUST
"ACCOUTRED AS SHE IS, SHE PLUNGES IN,"
"THE TOWN IS WAITING FOR THE DILIGENCE,"
A CAFÉ CONJURING-SCENE
LAC DE GAUBE AND VIGNEMALE
ONE CORNER OF THE OMNIBUS
THE CIRQUE OF GAVARNIE FROM THE CHAOS
THE INN-YARD AT GRIP
"THERE IS NAUGHT OF THE PRETENTIOUS ABOUT THE HOTEL D'ANGLETERRE,"
PIC DE LA PIQUE, AND PATH TO THE PORT DE VÉNASQUE
THE EVENING FÊTE AT BIGORRE
MAP.
RELIEF-MAP OF THE CENTRAL PYRENEES
A MIDSUMMER DRIVE THROUGH THE PYRENEES
CHAPTER I.
IN PERSPECTIVE.
"In fortune's empire blindly thus we go;
We wander after pathless destiny,
Whose dark resorts since prudence cannot know,
In vain it would provide for what shall be."
A trip to the Pyrenees is not in the Grand Tour. It is not even in any southerly extension of the Grand Tour. A proposition to exploit them meets a dubious reception. Pictures arise of desolate gorges; of lonely roads and dangerous trails; of dismal roadside inns, where, when you halt for the night, a "repulsive-looking landlord receives the unhappy man, exchanges a look of ferocious intelligence with the driver,"—and the usual melodramatic midnight carnage probably ensues. The Pyrenees seem to echo the motto of their old counts, "Touches-y, si tu l'oses!" the name seems to stand vaguely for untested discomforts, for clouds and chasms, and Spanish banditti