by Belloc · Cluster: Travel Writing · Pilgrimage · Landscape
Abstract
A collection of familiar travel essays and sketches on sailing the North Sea and the Channel, tramping the Pyrenees, and observing the towns, fens and coasts of England and France. Framed by a mock-heroic dedication celebrating two adventuring friends, the pieces mix reckless seamanship, landscape reverie and comic anecdote. Nature, weather and the fellowship of the road are Belloc’s constant themes.
Capitoli / Chapters
- DEDICATION
- THE NORTH SEA
- THE SINGER
- ON “MAILS”
- THE PYRENEAN HIVE
- DELFT
- THE ELECTION
- ARLES
- THE GRIFFIN
- THE CERDAGNE
- CARCASSONNE
- LYNN
- THE LOOE STREAM
- RONCESVALLES
- THE SLANT OFF THE LAND
- THE CANIGOU
- THE MAN AND HIS WOOD
- THE CHANNEL
- THE ROMAN ROAD
- THE ONION-EATER
- THE RETURN TO ENGLAND
- THE VALLEY OF THE ROTHER
- THE CORONATION
- THE DEPARTURE
- THE IDEA OF A PILGRIMAGE
- THE AUTUMN AND THE FALL OF LEAVES
- THE GOOD WOMAN
- THE HARBOUR IN THE NORTH
Connections
Forms & Genres: Travel Writing, Essay, Sketch, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: Nature, Friendship, Comradeship, Nature vs Civilization, Faith, Wonder Motifs: Sea, Journey, Road, Wind, Storm, Ship, Sea and Voyage Settings: Sea (2), Mountains, Rural England, France, Europe Characters: Hilaire Belloc Archetypes: Pilgrim Topoi: Open Road Homecoming, Sublime in Nature