In letters written in 1780, the twenty-year-old William Beckford travels through the Low Countries, Germany and the Tyrol to Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples. Admitting that a mist hovers before his eyes, he records less what he sees than what he feels and imagines among churches, galleries, mountains, goats and moonlit ruins.
A strange, beautiful travel book by the future author of Vathek, closer to a Romantic reverie than a guide. Download the free EPUB.