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As Seen by Me
Lilian Bell
其他書名
Travelling Europe and North Africa
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017-07-30
主題Travel / Essays & Travelogues
ISBN15470445869781547044580
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-1SaswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Lillian Bell travels throughout Europe and Northern Africa in the late nineteenth century. She goes to London, Paris, Poland, Russia, Constantinople, Egypt, Athens and Italy. The work is uneven lurching from wonderful descriptions of people, places and culture to observations that make the modern reader wince. She can both denigrate and love a group of people in the same paragraph. This makes for interesting if not always pleasurable reading.Excerpt from As Seen By Me.I never shall forget that drive to the station; nor the last few moments, when Bee and I stood on the car-steps and talked to those who were on the platform of the station. Can anybody else remember how she felt at going to Europe for the first time and leaving everybody she loved at home? Bee grieved because there were no flowers at the train after all. But the next morning they appeared, a tremendous box, arranged as a surprise.Telegrams came popping in at all the big stations along the way, enlivening our gloom, and at the steamer there were such loads of things that we might almost have set up as a florist, or fruiterer, or bookseller. Such a lapful of steamer letters and telegrams! I read a few each morning, and some of them I read every morning!