Name: A Book of the Riviera
Author: S. Baring-Gould
ISBN: 978-1176493056

Nonfiction | Travel

A Book of the Riviera

By S. Baring-Gould 7 Sep, 2020

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THIS little book has for its object to interest the many winter visitors to the Ligurian coast in the places that they see. A consecutive history of Provence and Genoese Liguria was out of the question; it would be long and tedious. I have taken a f ... Read more

THIS little book has for its object to interest the many winter visitors to the Ligurian coast in the places that they see. A consecutive history of Provence and Genoese Liguria was out of the question; it would be long and tedious. I have taken a few of the most prominent incidents in the history of the coast, and have given short biographies of interesting personages connected with it. The English visitor calls the entire coast—from Marseilles to Genoa—the Riviera; but the French distinguish their portion as the Côte d’Azur, and the Italians distinguish theirs as the Riviera di Ponente. I have not included the whole of this latter, so as not to make the book too bulky, but have stayed my pen at Savona. Less

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978-1176493056

S. Baring-Gould

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The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector, and eclectic...

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