Finding the worth-while in Europe

Albert B. Osborne

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Digitized by tine Internet Arcliive in 2007 witli funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation littpV/www.arcliive.org/details/findingwortliwIiilOOosboiala FINDING THE WORTH-WHILE IN EUROPE a 'S IS FINDING THE WORTH-WHILE IN EUROPE BY ALBERT B. OSBORNE Author of "Picture Towns ofEurope" NEW YORK McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY 1913 Copyright, 1913, by Co.McBride, Nast& Published, May, 1913 PREFACE To be hampered by a sense of duty is to destroy effectually the pleasure of a European tour. I mean by that if you visit merely the places you think you ought to see because they are famous, instead of the places you really wish to go to because they will interest you, then your trip will be spoiled. If you are not the least interested in pictures, it is a rather foolish waste of time to be bored by the galleries ; and if you delight in old castles, why go to the modern cities ? And ifyou want to find the quaint and medie- val villages, where life and environment are com- pletely at variance with your own, why not go there? Now in no sense is this book intended to usurp the place of indispensable Baedeker, nor does it profess to enumerate, much less describe, all that is worth while in Europe ; no one volume could do that. Chiefly do I try to tell the reader where to go in each land thingsto find the that distinguish that land from his and fromown other countries, the things that are un- like the things, or are better worth-while than the same kind of things to be found elsewhere.

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• Europe

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 81
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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Digitized by tine Internet Arcliive
in 2007 witli funding from
IVIicrosoft Corporation
littpV/www.arcliive.org/details/findingwortliwIiilOOosboialaFINDING THE
WORTH-WHILE
IN EUROPEa
'S
ISFINDING THE
WORTH-WHILE
IN EUROPE
BY
ALBERT B. OSBORNE
Author of "Picture Towns ofEurope"
NEW YORK
McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY
1913Copyright, 1913, by
Co.McBride, Nast&
Published, May, 1913