Tartarin on the Alps

by Alphonse Daudet

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1516927346
• ISBN13: 9781516927340
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"