The Alps

By William Martin Conway

Book Overview

JOHN RUSKIN, in a fine and famous passage, describes the effect of a first view of the Alps upon a young and sensitive mind. He was at Schaffhausen with his parents. "We must have spent some time in town-seeing," he writes, "for it was drawing towards sunset when we got up to some sort of garden promenade-west of the town, I believe; and high above the Rhine, so as to command the open country across it to the south and west. At which open country of low undulation, far into blue-gazing as at one of our own distances from Malvern of Worcestershire, or Dorking of Kent, -suddenly-behold-beyond

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151769972X
• ISBN13: 9781517699727
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"