First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2002. Pierre Loti, perhaps the world's most prolific, romantic and exotic travel writer turns his attention to Brittany, France.

First published in 2002. Set in Tahiti in 1872, this is an autobiographical novel that tells of the love affair between a beautiful island girl and the French naval officer who wrote under the name of Pierre Loti.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This tale of Breton peasant life, with its simple joys and sorrows, is beautifully told. There are grim and sordid scenes at Brest showing the temptations that lie in wait for the sailor as he comes ashore, and the sufferings of the wives living in the seaport, and of course there are characteristic description of the Breton country-side. Parallel with these there are descriptions of life in a warship during its cruise about the world.

Pierre Loti was a member of a diplomatic mission to the Sultan of Morocco at Fez, and in this book he gives us an extraordinarily fascinating account of the journey. The departure of the caravan from Tangier, the encampments, the nightly arrival of the Mouna, the crossing of the Oued-M'Cazen in flood, the fantasies and powder-play of the Arab horsemen, and the magnificent state entry into Fez, are described in a succession of vivid vignettes.

A tale of amorous dalliance in Polynesia, this is the exotic romance par excellence. Set in Tahiti in 1872, it is an autobiographical novel that tells of the love affair between a beautiful island girl and the French naval officer who wrote under the name of Pierre Loti. It is a sensuous book, full of the stormy passions of young love, the adventure of being in a strange and mysterious country, the excitement of slipping away to tryst in secret glades, the bittersweet happiness of lovers who know they are fated to part. Containing some of the finest lyrical evocations of island life ever written, this is the book that fixed the romantic Polynesian idyll in the public imagination for all time.

First published in 2002. This book on India is by Pierre Loti, perhaps the world's most prolific, romantic and exotic travel writer, takes in the Rock Temple, the Buried City, Home of the Maharajah of Travancore, the land of the great palms in Tanjore, Bernares and the towards Hyderabad, the land he calls famished India.

First published in 2002. Pierre Loti, perhaps the world's most prolific, romantic and exotic travel writer turns his attention to Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

Of the many novels written by Pierre Loti, one of his most endearing is "The Iceland Fisherman." About a group of French fishermen who leave Brittany to fish in the rough but bountiful waters off the coast of Iceland, this book is as much about the struggles they face in the violent weather of the North Atlantic as it is about the heartbreak faced by those left behind. Full of vivid descriptions of life both at sea and on land, the range of emotions felt by these men of the sea has never been better captured--from the solitude and isolation after many weeks at sea, to the jubilations of returning home after many months away.