Bibliographic Details
Title: Pierre Loti: The Romance of a Great Writer (...
Publisher: Kegan Paul
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Book Type: book
About this title
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.
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.
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