History of A Six Weeks' Tour - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

'I never knew—I never imagined what mountains were before.'History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) is a volume of travel-writing by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, two of the best-known authors of the English Romantic period. Comprising prose narrative, correspondence, and poetry, it is a highly engaging account of their 'adventures and feelings' during two journeys from England to Switzerland.The first part of History describes the titular 'tour' made by the not-yet married Mary... Zobrazit více