Letters of a Dead Man |
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| Author:
| Pückler-Muskau, Hermann von |
| Edited and Translated by:
| Parshall, Linda B. |
| Series title: | Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-88402-411-8 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
| Publisher: | Dumbarton Oaks
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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In 1826, Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau began a tour of England, Wales, and Ireland. His letters home were part memoir, part travelogue and political commentary, part epistolary novel. His rhetorical flare and acute observations provoked German poet Heinrich Heine to describe him as the "most fashionable of eccentric men--Diogenes on horseback."
In 1826, Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau began a tour of England, Wales, and Ireland. His letters home were part memoir, part travelogue and political commentary, part epistolary novel. His rhetorical flare and acute observations provoked German poet Heinrich Heine to describe him as the "most fashionable of eccentric men--Diogenes on horseback."