Woolson opens with a lightly fictional party of travellers wintering at Mentone, narrated by fifty-year-old Jane Jefferson. She then turns to Cairo in 1890, its new quarter, climate, mosques, bazaars and the Gizeh Museum, and finally to the island of Corfu, with the observant wit of a practised novelist.
Graceful travel writing from an American author admired by Henry James. Download the free EPUB.