Pierre Loti: The Romance of a Great Writer (Pierre Loti Library) - Hardcover

D'Auvergne, Professor Edward B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0710308647 ISBN 13: 9780710308641

Publisher: Kegan Paul, 2002

Synopsis

As a boy, Loti felt the call of the unknown. "I will wander all the world over," he told himself, "and return, a grey-haired man, to the home of my fathers to muse on the strange and beautiful things I have seen." This ambition was realized. Entering the French Navy, Loti saw the world from shipboard. He spent long months among the palm groves of the South Seas; he visited the scorching coast of Senegal and the wild seas of Iceland. And every strange and exotic scene he made the background of a love story.

In this life, written with fervent sympathy, we journey with Loti from Brittany to Constantinople, from China to Morocco, from Egypt to Ispahan, breathing all the way the atmosphere and recognizing the sources of the stories which have delighted the peoples of all lands. Readers will find the biography of Pierre Loti as fascinating as the tales for which he is so deservedly renowned.

About this title

About the Author:

Pierre Loti, perhaps the world's most prolific, romantic and exotic travel writer and novelist, was born Julien Marie Viaud in Rochefort in Western France in 1850. He died in 1923.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kegan Paul
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0710308647
• ISBN 13: 9780710308641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254