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 ...
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 ...
A love idyll in the setting of the Pyrenees, in the country of the Basques, that ancient and dwindling race which preserves so passionately its native pride, its old piety, and its disdain for things new and strange. The story of Ramuntcho's wooing of the golden-haired daughter of the enemy, and the misfortune that overtook it, is beautifully told ...
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 ...
Pierre Loti, n Louis Marie Julien Viaud, (1850-1923) est un crivain franais. Officier de marine, ses voyages lui ont inspir beaucoup de ses romans, dont l'un des plus connus est Pcheur d'Islande (1886). Il est galement connu pour son admiration envers la Turquie. En 1867, il entre l'cole navale de Brest. En 1872, il dcouvre Tahiti lors d'une ...
CROWNED BY THE FRENCH ACADEMY "Madam Chrysantheme" is nineteenth-century French author Pierre Loti's autobiographical account of his brief stay in Japan. His tale is mostly observation -- but there's an almost outre quality about his description of the exotic and foreign world around him. Loti's quest for a bride to amuse him during this time ...
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.
The French travel writer and exotic novelist Pierre Loti (1850-1923), in his day the youngest member elected to the Academie Francaise, had dreamt of visiting the ruins of Angkor when, as a child, he came across illustrations of them among some papers belonging to his elder brother, who had served in Indochina in the navy.Loti, whose real name was ...
Louis Marie-Julien Viaud (1850-1923) was a French sailor and writer, who used the pseudonym Pierre Loti. At the age of seventeen, being destined for the navy, he entered the naval school in Brest. In 1876 fellow naval officers persuaded him to turn into a novel passages in his diary dealing with some curious experiences at Istanbul. The result was ...
Eccentric! Decadent! The words pale when applied to Pierre Loti, the pseudonym of Julien Viaud, 1850-1923. Artist, naval officer, consort of countesses, & well-published author, his excesses & experimentation mirror those of such Decadent contemporaries as Rimbaud & Verlaine. First published in 1895 & finally available in English, "The Desert" has ...
Topographic map including road, rail and ferry networks, cities and towns as well as hotel listings and indexes to places of interest, covering all of Egypt from the Mediterranean coast in the north to the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser in the south, and from the Libyan border in the west to the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the east.
There are many books on the Holy Land, but not one that has in it anything such as Loti has put into this nor one that makes Christ seem so real, and yet the author professes to be an unbeliever. It has an extraordinary charm and fascination, and believers and unbelievers alike will appreciate it.
Loti's sensitive, almost sensuous, and exotic art is peculiarly fitted for such a subject as "the great sea without water," and the Spahi on the Senegal, of romantic passion and seductive smile, "undisciplined but not dissolute," whose love adventures range from sordid and riotous town affairs to his passionate desert romance with Fatou-Gaye.
A city of mosques, then, as I was saying. They follow one another along the streets, sometimes two, three, four in a row; leaning one against the other, so that their confines become merged. On all sides their minarets shoot up into the air, those minarets embellished with arabesques, carved and complicated with the most changing fancy. They have ...
Pierre Loti, n Louis Marie Julien Viaud, (1850-1923) est un crivain franais. Officier de marine, ses voyages lui ont inspir beaucoup de ses romans, dont l'un des plus connus est Pcheur d'Islande (1886). Il est galement connu pour son admiration envers la Turquie. En 1867, il entre l'cole navale de Brest. En 1872, il dcouvre Tahiti lors d'une ...
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Pierre Loti was a young man of twenty-five when he first came to the great city that links Europe and Asia and he fell immediately under its spell, donning Turkish robes to pass unnoticed through the secret byways of the Sublime Port. "AziyadA(c)" is the result of his travels there -- a great Orientalist romance and a true story of forbidden love ...
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