For decades Thomas Hughes sent holiday letters to The Spectator under the pen name “Vacuus Viator,” and late in life he gathered them for his children. They begin in 1862 with Bonn, Munich, the Tyrol, Vienna and the Danube, and later carry him across the Atlantic to the United States, where the caves and landscapes set him thinking about fugitive slaves.
A relaxed, warm-hearted travel book by the author of Tom Brown’s School Days, a Victorian liberal with his eyes open. Download the free EPUB.