Nathaniel Parker Willis sent these letters home to the New-York Mirror during several years of travel and residence abroad: Paris, Florence and Rome, a cruise in the Mediterranean with the American navy to Greece and Constantinople, and finally the drawing-rooms of London, where his gossip about famous hosts and writers caused a stir with the Quarterly Review.
A chatty, observant period travelogue that made its author famous on both sides of the Atlantic. Download the free EPUB.