Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu
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A chance gathering of travellers arrives at Mentone, where hotel breakfast talk and Mediterranean sunshine set the tone for Constance Fenimore Woolson's travel sketches. The opening section uses the voice of Jane Jefferson, who introduces her niece Margaret and their companions with amused attention to their habits. Professor Mackenzie's explanations of the local climate mingle with observations of the sea, narrow streets, and the sounds of the town.
The collection also turns to Cairo and Corfu, bringing together pieces first published in a magazine, with additional material in the later two sketches. In Cairo, Woolson follows changing patterns of light into shaded bazaars, watching craftspeople make and display their goods. Readers interested in nineteenth-century travel writing will find detailed impressions of places alongside the social comedy of travelling company. Landscape, conversation, and everyday work give these sketches their varied texture.
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- Pages
- 265
- Language
- English
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- Travelogue
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