Holiday Adventures - Valdemossa
My
two favorite authors, Bill Bryson and the comedian Griff Rhys Jones, have a few
things in common. First they are primarily travel writers, they use their words
to paint a picture using whit and colorful metaphors that some how pick you up
and whisk you along in their journey. To all intent and purpose, from page one
to the back cover you become their travel companion. Beyond that, thankfully as
my memory isn’t all that great, they also both have short and memorable names.
Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin does not
exactly stick in my memory in quite the same way as Bill or Griff! Perhaps she
understood that, perhaps she even wished she had been called Bill as she later
chose to write under the rather boyish pseudonym of George Sand and was known
for wearing men’s clothing. But while Amandine doesn’t exactly roll off the
tongue in quite the same way as her modern day contemporaries, she could at
least claim to have been a wonderful writer who was never afraid to make full
use of humor and irony.
Sand was born in Paris in 1804 to a noble family, although
in actual fact her mother had began life as a commoner. For the most part she
was raised by her Grandmother, who when given her full title had a name so long
it even commanded a coma! Marie Aurore de Saxe, Madame Dupin de Franceuil.
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Information on this page last updated: 09.11.2008.
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Welcome to the new version of the Wandering Angler website! I really hope that
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October
2008
As
the days become colder I suddenly realise that I haven’t been fishing as much
as I would have liked to!
The regular Wandering Angler users already had a chance to...
