| Brittany & Its Byways (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): Palliser, Bury (Author) |
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ISBN: 140659945X ISBN-13: 9781406599459 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Mrs Bury, (Fanny) Palliser, nee Marryat (1805-1878) was the British author of: A History of Lace (1865) and Brittany & Its Byways (1869). "A fair wind conveyed us in six hours from Poole to Cherbourg. It was dusk when we entered the harbour, and so we had no opportunity of seeing its beauty until the following morning, when we ascended a height behind the town, called the Mont du Roule. It is reached either on foot or by carriage, the Emperor having ordered a road to be made up to the fort which crowns the heights, on the occasion of the visit to Cherbourg, in 1858, of her Majesty Queen Victoria. Some 1500 men were immediately set to work, and, in a few days, an easy carriage-road was finished, up which the Emperor drove the Queen at his usual rapid pace." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Travel |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6" W x 9" (0.71 lbs) 216 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Mrs Bury, (Fanny) Palliser, nee Marryat (1805-1878) was the British author of: A History of Lace (1865) and Brittany & Its Byways (1869). "A fair wind conveyed us in six hours from Poole to Cherbourg. It was dusk when we entered the harbour, and so we had no opportunity of seeing its beauty until the following morning, when we ascended a height behind the town, called the Mont du Roule. It is reached either on foot or by carriage, the Emperor having ordered a road to be made up to the fort which crowns the heights, on the occasion of the visit to Cherbourg, in 1858, of her Majesty Queen Victoria. Some 1500 men were immediately set to work, and, in a few days, an easy carriage-road was finished, up which the Emperor drove the Queen at his usual rapid pace. " |