Pictures of Travel in the South of France (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Pictures of Travel in the South of France In the case of the "South of France, " there can be no doubt, whatever the ill-natured may say, that M. Dumas did not travel through books alone, but that he has only described what he actually saw. He has been accused of presuming upon the ignorance of his readers, when writing of scenes of which they knew nothing, but in this instance he has told them of places and objects with which many of them have been familiar during their lives, and yet with every sentence he has told them something of which they have, doubtless, been but partially informed, or entirely ignorant. M. Dumas, in the following pages, alludes to those tourists who travel a thousand miles to view a wonder, while they have never observed a still greater wonder at their own doors. In fact, the work may be considered as, in some respects, a satire on this class of easy and comfortable persons. At all events, the writer proves, in a manner the most satisfactory, that useful travelling, like real charity, might begin at home. 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.