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Author : Richard Vernier
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843833567
Relates the colourful life of 'enlightened despot' Gaston III, count of Foix, an enigmatic and brilliant figure in a turbulent period.
Author : Ann Bridge
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448203642
After the perilous circumstances in which the newly married Julia and Philip met, it is no wonder that the Colonel wants his pregnant wife safe and away from too much excitement. Unfortunately, the remote French mountain village he chooses is not only impractical, isolated, and far from medical assistance, but is unfortunately also in the path of smugglers and saboteurs. Collin Munro – Julia's cousin and agent for the British Secret Service – arrives on the scene to investigate a threat to the local gasworks, but it is soon clear that once again, it will be down to Julia to solve the mystery, even if she is heavily pregnant. Emergency in the Pyrenees, book five of the Julia Probyn Mysteries, is rich with intrigue, peril, and humour.
Author : John O'Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UOM:39015005107399
Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030759124
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Plantagenet Publishing
Page : 2478 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Wi Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000219500
Author : William Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z167959306
Author : Louisa Stuart Costello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Béarn (France)
ISBN : BSB:BSB10466595
Author : Adolphe Thiers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : France
ISBN : PRNC:32101074210673
Author : Great Britain. War Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:28893661
Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Pyrenees
ISBN : HARVARD:HN65W6
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Europe
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJ8XI
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Civil service
ISBN : UOM:39015035100539
Author : Hippolyte Taine,John Safford Fiske,Gustave Dore
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385369818
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : France
ISBN : 9781465608307
The Pyrenees stand up as a natural wall of demarcation between two nations, the French and the Spaniards, just as the mountains of Dauphiné sever the French from the Italians. It has been remarked that these natural barriers are thrown up to part Romance-speaking peoples, whereas the mountain ranges sink to comparative insignificance between the French and the Germans. Over the Jura the French tongue has flowed up the Rhone to Sierre, above the Lake of Geneva, so the Spanish or Catalan has overleaped the Pyrenees in Roussillon, and the Basque tongue has those who speak it in both cis-Pyrenean and trans-Pyrenean Navarre. The Pyrenees are the upcurled lips of the huge limestone sea-bed, that at some vastly remote period was snapped from east to west, and through the fissure thus formed the granite was thrust, lifting along with it the sedimentary rocks. Consequently the Pyrenees consist of from two to three parallel chains. The central and loftiest is that of granite, but where loftiest is hidden on the north side by the upturned reef of limestone. On the south the calcareous bed is lifted in great slabs, but split, and does not form so ragged and so lofty a range. The Pyrenees start steeply out of the Mediterranean, which at a distance of five-and-twenty miles from Cape Creuse, has a depth of over 500 fathoms, and there the limestone flares white and bald in the line of the Albères. But to the west the chain does not drop abruptly into the Atlantic, but trails away for 300 miles, forming the Asturian mountains, and then, curving south, serves to part Galicia from Leon. The range of the Pyrenees dividing France from Spain is 350 miles in length. The chain to the west wears a different aspect from that in the east. The Basque mountains are clothed with trees, pines and birch, walnut and chestnut, and above them are turf and heather. But the eastern extremity is white and barren. This is due to the fact that the Western Pyrenees catch and condense the vapours from the Atlantic, whereas the Oriental Pyrenees do not draw to them heavy and continuous rains. The boundary between the regions and climates is Mont Carlitte. In the Western Pyrenees the snow line lies far lower than in the east. On the former of these glaciers hang in wreaths, whereas there are none in the east. The contrast between the northern and southern slopes is even more marked than that between the extremities of the chain. On the French side are snow, ice, running streams, fertile vales, luxuriant meadows and forests, and valleys and hillsides that sparkle with villages smiling in prosperity. But on the southern slope the eye ranges over barren rocks, sun-baked, scanty pastures, and here and there at long intervals occur squalid clusters of stone hovels, scarce fit to shelter goats, yet serving as human habitations.