Brittany and Its Byways

Name: Brittany and Its Byways
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ISBN: 9781406599459

ISBN-10: 140659945X

ISBN-13: 9781406599459

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Authors: Bury Palliser

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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…

Book details

List price: $10.99
Publisher: Dodo Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English