This is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what it would have been like to travel France and Switzerland just after the Napoleanic Wars ended. And what could be more amusing than reading a description of Shelley knocking down another boat passenger who was being rude?

This gets four stars

A rather fascinating travel narrative from the perspectives of Mary Shelley & her husband, Percy Shelley (with her sister Claire) from trips taken 1814 & 1816.

Part journal, part letters, & one poem, 'Mont Blanc' (Percy Shelley), the details recorded are often stunning looks at the countries through

As cartas possuem mais detalhes do que o diário em si; gostei também do anexo de linhas escritas. Foi levemente desesperador ver o tanto de desconforto e os perigos que Mary Shelley e cia. passaram.

"Nature was the poet, whose harmony held our spirits more breathless than that of the divinest."

Una giovanissima Mary, la sua sorellastra Claire e Percy Shelley percorrono in un viaggio di sei settimane parte della Francia, Germania, Svizzera e Olanda. Vista la scarsa disponibilità economica saranno

Here is a short but very beautifully written travelogue chronicling the European travels of the married Percy Shelley with his teenage mistress, Mary Godwin, who would later marry him and take his name. It was during this trip that Mary Shelley was inspired to write Frankenstein, a worthy classic of

Didn't find the contents to be terribly fascinating of itself, but I was intrigued by the origin and development of this text, which was a collaborative project that grew out of a shared journal that Mary and PB Shelley both wrote in during their initial elopement journey and subsequent European tra

Brief, curious, very descriptive, beautifully written.