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Title: Promenades dans les Pyre ne es. (2e se rie.) With
illustrations.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works
chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern
age. Highlights include the development of language, political and
educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The
selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in
power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal
loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion
into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Leclercq, Jules; 1893
240 p.; 8 . 010170.h.46.
In the summer of 1883 Belgian travel writer Jules Leclercq spent
ten days on horseback in Yellowstone, the world's first national
park, exploring myriad natural wonders: astonishing geysers,
majestic waterfalls, the vast lake, and the breathtaking canyon. He
also recorded the considerable human activity, including the
rampant vandalism. Leclercq's account of his travels is itself a
small marvel blending natural history, firsthand impressions,
scientific lore, and anecdote. Along with his observations on the
park's long-rumoured fountains of boiling water and mountains of
glass, Leclercq describes camping near geysers, washing clothes in
a bubbling hot spring, and meeting such diverse characters as local
guides and tourists from the United States and Europe. Notables
including former president Ulysses S. Grant and then-president
Chester A. Arthur were also in the park that summer to inaugurate
the newly completed leg of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A
sensation in Europe, the book was never published in English. This
deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking
readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a
fascinating historical document in its own right.
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