Henry James travels by rail through provincial France in the early 1880s, from Tours and the châteaux of the Loire to Bourges, Carcassonne, Nîmes, Arles and Avignon. He calls these pages sketches rather than history, and they are full of cathedrals, Roman ruins, inn dinners, chatty curés and the light on old stone.
Travel writing by one of the finest prose stylists in English, best read slowly with a map at hand. Download the free EPUB.