Topic: Augustus Hare

Book 1095 c

Smithsonian - 914 days ago
Call a book charming in these benighted days and you risk burying it forever. No doubt Anita Miller and James Papp have chosen the best pages from Hare's original, but I for one will be combing secondhand bookshops for the complete ...

Around the world in 80 years

Spectator, The London - 1199 days ago
POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION by Gore Vidal Doubleday, Two summers ago at La Rondinaia, during one of those last evenings before he flew from his sky-high eyrie for the last time, Gore Vidal advised me to read the 19th-century memoirist Augustus Hare ...