PDF Books in Travel
The Warwickshire Avon
by Arthur Quiller-CouchUR journey opens in Northamptonshire, and in that season when the year grows ancient,“Not yet on summer’s death, nor on the birthOf trembling winter.”In the stubble the crack! crack! of a stray gun speaks, now and again, of partridge-time. Over the pastures, undulating with ridge and furrow, where the black oxen feed, patches of gloom and gleam are..
Newcom Tavern
by AnonymousIn the year of the treaty, Jonathan Dayton, head of a New Jersey land company which also included Generals Wilkinson and St. Clair and a Colonel Ludlow, acquired the so-called “seventh and eighth ranges” between the two Miami Rivers, and employed surveyors to lay out a town site. The town was to take Jonathan Dayton’s name, although he was never to..
Pennsylvania Dutch Guide-Book
by AnonymousThis Official Guide-Book of the Pennsylvania Dutch Tourist Bureau has been prepared solely for the purpose of making the tourist’s visit to Lancaster County the interesting and enjoyable experience it should be.Situated but a few hours drive from many of the great cities of the eastern United States, the Pennsylvania Dutch Country offers more to th..
Toledo
by Albert Frederick CalvertThe author would, in the ordinary way, be hard put to it to frame a reasonable apology for compiling a new volume on the subject of the ancient and royal city of Toledo. Artists have reproduced its wonder of imposing and picturesque detail; archæologists have explored its many monuments; historians have discovered in its archives a record which, fo..
Seville
by Albert Frederick CalvertThere is a charm and compelling fascination about Seville which produces in the traveller visiting the city for the first time a sensation of physical ecstasy. The spell of the Pearl of Andalusia is instant and enduring; I have not met a man or woman proof against its witchery. George Borrow shed tears of rapture as he beheld Seville from the Crist..
Riverside London; A Sketch-Book
by Dorothy WoollardRiverside London; A Sketch-Book, an illustrative book with more than 15 pictures by Dorothy E. G. Woollard.LONDON BRIDGELAMBETH BRIDGE.WATERLOO BRIDGE.CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE,BLACKFRIAR’S BRIDGE.ST. PAUL’S.ST. PAUL’S THE RIVER.ST PAUL’S FROM WATERLOO.BANKSIDE.OLD SWAN WHARF.FISHMONGER’S HALL.CANNON STREET STATION.THE TOWER BRIDGE.TRAFFIC ON THE TOWER.TH..
Granada and the Alhambra
by Albert Frederick CalvertGranada and the Alhambra: A brief description of the ancient city of Granada, with a particular account of the Moorish palace.Although the admission may be construed by the censorious as betraying a lack of becoming diffidence, I am tempted to believe that no apology will be demanded for the publication of this volume by that section of the reading..
Picturesque Spain - Architecture, landscape, life of the people
by Kurt HielscherSpain is one great open-air museum containing the cultural wealth of the most varied epochs and peoples. On the walls of the Altamira cave is blazoned that much admired steer painted thousands of years ago by men of the Ice Age. In Barcelona stand the fantastic buildings of neo-Castilian present-day art. Celts, Iberians, Romans, Carthaginians, Moor..