The Boy Travellers In Southern Europe

Excerpt from The Boy Travellers in Southern Europe Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey Through, Italy, Southern France, and Spain: With Visits to Gibraltar and the Islands of Sicily and Malta In the preceding volume of this series (The Boy Travellers in Central Europe) we left our young friends at Buda-Pesth, where they had arrived from Vienna by way of the Danube. Having finished with their observations of the capital of Hungary, they were debating where to go next, and left the decision of the question to Mrs. Bassett and Mary. Having seen Northern and Central Europe, it was quite natural that Mrs. Bassett should desire to visit the countries bordering on the Mediterranean, and she promptly suggested that their faces should be turned in the direction of Italy. Mary supported with great earnestness her mother's proposition, and the arrangements for the journey were speedily made. The railway carried the party from Buda-Pesth to Trieste, and from the latter city to Venice, where our story opens. From Venice through Italy, and thence along their devious route till we leave the travellers at Gibraltar, Mrs. Bassett and Mary have been the constant companions of Frank and Fred, and have added materially to the interest of the journey. The former has continued to profit by her experiences of foreign lands and people, and the latter has shared with her brother and cousin in making note of what was seen, heard, and experienced day by day. Her prominence in the narrative is fully as great as it was in The Boy Travellers in Central Europe, and we are sure that the reader will admire, and possibly envy, her intelligence, her keenness of observation, and her constant determination to learn as much as possible of the countries through which she is passing. The scheme that has been followed in the preparation of the preceding volumes of "The Boy Travellers" is continued in the present narrative, and the readers of "Southern Europe" will find the same characters and the same form of conversation, note-taking, and recordkeeping that they found in "Great Britain and Ireland," "Northern Europe," and "Central Europe." 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.

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Excerpt from The Boy Travellers in Southern Europe Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey Through, Italy, Southern France, and Spain: With Visits to Gibraltar and the Islands of Sicily and Malta Nearly all of the routes described in this volume have been personally travelled by the author, and some of them more than once, and nearly every city, town, or other place of interest which has been visited by The Boy Travellers in Southern Europe was previously visited by him. As far as possible he has aimed to speak from personal knowledge, but he has not hesitated to use the work of other travellers over the same ground, and believes that he has done so to the advantage of the reader. The authorities thus drawn upon have been mentioned in the pages of the volume, and need not be repeated in the Preface. Statistical informa tion concerning populations, manufactures, commerce, military and naval forces, and the like, have been obtained from official sources, or, where such were lacking, from the most authentic of non-official publications. Dimensions of buildings, parks, etc., heights of mountains, and kindred measurements have been taken from guide-books, either general or local, and in some cases from measurements made 'by the author during his visits to the places described. The writer hereby tenders his acknowledgments to the courtesy of Messrs. Harper Brothers for the privilege of using such of the illustrations as were originally prepared for other of their publications. 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.

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