The motor-car, Edith Wharton declares, has restored the romance of travel, and she proves it on journeys from Boulogne to Amiens, through Beauvais and Rouen, along the Loire, to George Sand’s Nohant, into Auvergne and down to the south-west. She lingers on Gothic cathedrals, medieval bastides and the villages the railway had hidden.
Elegant travel writing from a great novelist, for anyone who loves France and its architecture. Download the free EPUB.