History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland:: With Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft · 1822

Nothing can be more unpresuming than this little volume. It contains the account of some desultory visits by a party of young people to scenes which are now so familiar to our countrymen, that few facts relating to them can be expected to have escaped the many more experienced and exact observers, who have sent their journals to the press. In fact, they have done little else than arrange the few materials which an imperfect journal, and two or three letters to their friends in England afforded. They regret, since their little History is to be offered to the public, that these materials were not more copious and complete. This is a just topic of censure to those who are less inclined to be am…

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