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ISBN 13 : 9781330935958
Total Pages : 450 pages
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Book Synopsis Travel, Adventure, and Sport from Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) by :
Download or read book Travel, Adventure, and Sport from Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travel, Adventure, and Sport From Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 4 It was very late one evening when I arrived at the little village of Sallenches, in Savoy - then a cluster of the humblest ehdlets, and not as now, since the conflagration, a promising town - very footsore and dusty. At the door of the inn I met old Victor Tairraz, who then kept the Hotel de Londres at Chamouni, and was the father of the three brothers who now conduct it - one as maitre, the second as cook, and the third as head waiter. He hoped when I arrived at Chamouni that I would come to his house; and he gave me a printed card of his prices, with a View of the establishment at the top of it, in which every possible peak of the Mont Blanc chain that could be selected from all points of the compass was collected into one aspect, supposed to be the view from all the bedroom windows of the establish ment - in front, at the back, and on either side. I was annoyed at this card for I could not reconcile, at that golden time, my early dreams of the valley of Chamouni with the ordinary business of a Star-and Garter-like hotel. 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.
