Tartarin On The Alps (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781519252753)

On the 10th of August, 1880, at that fabled hour of the setting sun so vaunted by the guide-books Joanne and Baedeker, an hermetic yellow fog, complicated with a flurry of snow in white spirals, enveloped the summit of the Rigi (Regina monhum) and its gigantic hotel, extraordinary to behold on the arid waste of those heights, -that Rigi-Kulm, glassed-in like a conservatory, massive as a citadel, where alight for a night and a day a flock of tourists, worshippers of the sun

Author: Alphonse Daudet
ISBN-10: 1519252757
ISBN-13: 9781519252753
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2016
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d