Views A-foot by J. Bayard Taylor

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Author

Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878

Title

Views A-foot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

Credits

Etext produced by Maria Paola Andreoni, Carlo Traverso and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML file produced by David Widger This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr.

Language

English

LoC Class

D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

Subject

Europe -- Description and travel

Category

Text

eBook-No.

11535

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11535

Release Date

March 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.VIEWS A-FOOT; — OR
2. 2. — WITH A PREFACE BY N.P. WILLIS. — IN TWO PARTS.
3. 3.PART I.
4. 4.PREFACE. — BY N.P. WILLIS.
5. 5.TO — FRANK TAYLOR, — THESE RECORDS OF THE PILGRIMAGE, — WHOSE TOILS AND ENJOYMENTS WE HAVE SHARED TOGETHER, — ARE — AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED, — BY — HIS RELATIVE AND FRIEND.
6. 6.VIEWS A-FOOT.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. — THE VOYAGE.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. — A DAY IN IRELAND.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. — BEN LOMOND AND THE HIGHLAND LAKES.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — THE BURNS FESTIVAL.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. — WALK FROM EDINBURG OVER THE BORDER AND ARRIVAL AT LONDON.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — SOME OF THE "SIGHTS" OF LONDON.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. — FLIGHT THROUGH BELGIUM.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. — THE RHINE TO HEIDELBERG.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. — SCENES IN AND AROUND HEIDELBERG.
16. 16.CHAPTER X. — A WALK THROUGH THE ODENWALD.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI. — SCENES IN FRANKFORT—AN AMERICAN COMPOSER—THE POET FREILIGRATH.
18. 18.CHAPTER XII. — A WEEK AMONG THE STUDENTS.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. — CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR IN GERMANY.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. — WINTER IN FRANKFORT—A FAIR, AN INUNDATION AND A FIRE.
21. 21.CHAPTER XV. — THE DEAD AND THE DEAF—MENDELSSOHN THE COMPOSER.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. — JOURNEY ON FOOT FROM FRANKFORT TO CASSEL.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII. — ADVENTURES AMONG THE HARTZ.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. — NOTES IN LEIPSIC AND DRESDEN.
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX. — RAMBLES IN THE SAXON SWITZERLAND.
26. 26.CHAPTER XX. — SCENES IN PRAGUE.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. — JOURNEY THROUGH EASTERN BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA TO THE DANUBE.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. — VIENNA.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII. — UP THE DANUBE.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. — THE UNKNOWN STUDENT.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. — THE AUSTRIAN ALPS. — END OF PART I. — — VIEWS A-FOOT; — OR
32. 32. — WITH A PREFACE BY N.P. WILLIS. — IN TWO PARTS. — PART II.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVI. — MUNICH.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVII. — THROUGH WURTEMBERG TO HEIDELBERG.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXVIII. — FREIBURG AND THE BLACK FOREST.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXIX. — PEOPLE AND PLACES IN EASTERN SWITZERLAND.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXX. — PASSAGE OF THE ST. GOTHARD AND DESCENT INTO ITALY.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXI. — MILAN.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXII. — WALK FROM MILAN TO GENOA.
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIII. — SCENES IN GENOA, LEGHORN AND PISA.
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXIV. — FLORENCE AND ITS GALLERIES.
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXV. — A PILGRIMAGE TO VALLOMBROSA.
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVI. — WALK TO SIENA AND PRATOLINO—INCIDENTS IN FLORENCE.
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXVII. — AMERICAN ART IN FLORENCE.
45. 45.CHAPTER XXXVIII. — AN ADVENTURE ON THE GREAT ST. BERNARD—WALKS AROUND FLORENCE.
46. 46.CHAPTER XXXIX. — WINTER TRAVELING AMONG THE APPENINES.
47. 47.CHAPTER XL. — ROME.
48. 48.CHAPTER XLI. — TIVOLI AND THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA.
49. 49.CHAPTER XLII. —
50. 50.CHAPTER XLIII. — PILGRIMAGE TO VAUCLUSE AND JOURNEY UP THE RHONE.
51. 51.CHAPTER XLIV. — TRAVELING IN BURGUNDY—THE MISERIES OF A COUNTRY DILIGENCE.
52. 52.CHAPTER XLV. — POETICAL SCENES IN PARIS.
53. 53.CHAPTER XLVI. — A GLIMPSE OF NORMANDY.
54. 54.CHAPTER XLVII. — LOCKHART, BERNARD BARTON AND CROLY—LONDON CHIMES AND GREENWICH FAIR.
55. 55.CHAPTER XLVIII. — HOMEWARD BOUND——CONCLUSION. — THE END.

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