A Londoners Walk To The Lands End

Author : Walter White
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ISBN 13 : 9781331994817
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End written by Walter White and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End: And a Trip to the Scilly Isles Having in mind happy recollections of my rambles through the Land of Rock and Legend - of the inspiration thereby gained for after hours with the pen - and the present satisfaction arising out of a hope realised, my pleasure in writing these introductory pages becomes a threefold pleasure. I can remember, moreover, the circumstances that prevailed when, six years ago, I offered a few quires of manuscript to certain publishers: how that one replied, "You have contrived to make a stale subject interesting; but as a book nobody would buy it: " another, "You have directed your industry into a channel that will never pay: " another, "The best thing to do with it would be to publish the chapter about the Portland Breakwater as a magazine article: " an eminent firm in Cornhill made me feel that a refusal might be rendered palatable; more so, as some have recorded in their praise than others' acceptance; but whatever their soothing it was quickly dissipated by the next, who, without bestowing a glance at the manuscript, said bluntly, "We couldn't look at any but a first-rate book." Feeling diffident of my ability to write acceptably about a walk on our side of the Channel, I had prepared only one half of my narrative; so drawing what seemed the logical inference from the replies above-mentioned, I laid the manuscript aside, and there it would have remained had not a friend advised me a week or two later to offer it to the present publisher; whose opinion proving favourable, my chapters in due time took shape in type, and neither he nor I have reason to be dissatisfied with the result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.