After earlier rambles through Brittany and the Loire, Louisa Stuart Costello set out for Béarn and the valleys of the Pyrenees. Her two volumes mix descriptions of castles, spas, mountain towns and their people with the history of the region’s counts and kings, and with the ballads, local legends and tales she translated along the way.
Romantic early-Victorian travel writing for anyone who knows or dreams of southwest France. Download the free EPUB.