100 year old travel narrative...

[kellyz]

Has anyone else here read Four Months Afoot in Spain by Harry Franck, 1911. I found it in my local used bookstore. It's not consciously a Camino narrative, and yet he describes his walk from Lugo to Oviedo and Oviedo to Leon, a backwards Camino del Salvaor and Primitivo! Quite an interesting little piece of old travel narrative. I could scan some pages if anyone is interested.
Kelly

 

[Theatregal]

Has anyone else here read Four Months Afoot in Spain by Harry Franck, 1911. I found it in my local used bookstore. It's not consciously a Camino narrative, and yet he describes his walk from Lugo to Oviedo and Oviedo to Leon, a backwards Camino del Salvaor and Primitivo! Quite an interesting little piece of old travel narrative. I could scan some pages if anyone is interested.
Kelly

Sounds like you found a treasure in your bookstore Kelly! I'd be very interested in reading those pages.

 

[Deleted member 3000]

Free on Kindle from Amazon (at least for Prime members). The 1911 edition was upgraded with photos in 1926. A reprint has been issued fairly recently, 2009 according to Amazon.com.

 

[MichaelSG]

The Kindle edition is free for non-Prime members too. Yeah. Thanks Kelly & Falcon.

 

[kellyz]

Just reread those portions last night. He is certainly walking in the neighborhood of the Primitivo. He takes the train from Oviedo to Lugo.
What I most enjoyed was reading his brief descriptions of eating meals inside village homes in Galicia.
The old-school cultural stereotyping/condescension is prevalent. Of course.
If anyone buys it let me know.
I have the reprint, only a very few photos.

 

[Theatregal]

I've just ordered the book. Thanks for this info Kelly. I'm intrigued. Looks like Harry Franck wrote a whole series of books about his travels.

 

[kellyz]

I'm definitely going to check out his "Tramping through Mexico..."

 

[John SBP]

What an incredible find

 

[basquelady]

Available on the Gutenberg site, for those outside of free Kindle area.:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40357/40357-h/40357-h.html