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Rollo in Rome

by Jacob Abbott

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Booking a coach from Naples to Rome gives Rollo a lesson in managing his own travel arrangements. In Jacob Abbott's children's story, he studies the Italian rules on his ticket, delivers the baggage and helps prepare food for the overnight trip with his uncle George. Questions about fares, lost luggage and responsibility turn these small tasks into conversations about sensible conduct. Their preparations also reveal the discomforts and concerns that shaped travel through the Pontine Marshes.

At the Coliseum, sightseeing becomes a discussion of engineering and preservation. Rollo and his uncle compare the enormous ruin with the steamship Great Eastern, considering what makes a structure impressive. Rollo then notices the thin, yellow bricks exposed in the walls and finds letters stamped into one of them. The book combines a young traveller's curiosity with practical explanations, offering readers a view of Italy through the everyday details of a nineteenth-century children's travel tale.

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Jacob Abbott

Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) was an American author, educator, and Congregational minister, born in Hallowell, Maine, and trained at Bowdoin College and Andover Theological Seminary.

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Pages
75
Language
English
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