Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures Of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland
by Bayard Taylor
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages200 pages
ISBN
9781494407841
Published
2006
Description
Regarded as one Of America's foremost travel writers, a respected poet, and author of what is often called "America's first gay novel," Pennsylvania-born Bayard Taylor set out for a trek across scandinavia in 1855 with t...Regarded as one Of America's foremost travel writers, a respected poet, and author of what is often called "America's first gay novel," Pennsylvania-born Bayard Taylor set out for a trek across scandinavia in 1855 with the intention of capturing native life so accurately on paper that readers would liken his prose to photographs. His letters containing the accounts of his journey were published in newspapers then republished under the title northern travel: summer and winter pictures.