A Trip to Cuba
‹
›
- Browse Category
We Begin at the EndLearn More - Choice Picks
- Top 100 Free Books
- Blog
- Recently Added
- Submit your eBook
By Julia Ward Howe
20 Feb, 2019
Excerpt.........WHY one leaves home at all is a question that travellers are sure, sooner or later, to ask themselves,—I mean, pleasure-travellers. Home, where one has the "Transcript" every night, and the "Autocrat" every month, opera, theatre, ci
... Read more
Excerpt.........WHY one leaves home at all is a question that travellers are sure, sooner or later, to ask themselves,—I mean, pleasure-travellers. Home, where one has the "Transcript" every night, and the "Autocrat" every month, opera, theatre, circus, and good society, in constant rotation,—home, where everybody knows us, and the little good there is to know about us,—finally, home, as seen regretfully for the last time, with the gushing of long frozen friendships, the priceless kisses of children, and the last sad look at dear baby's pale face through the window-pane,—well, all this is left behind, and we review it as a dream, while the railroad-train hurries us along to the spot where we are to leave, not only this, but Winter, rude tyrant, with all our precious hostages in his grasp. Soon the swift motion lulls our brains into the accustomed muddle. We seem to be dragged along like a miserable thread pulled through the eye of an everlasting needle,—through and through, and never through,—while here and there, like painful knots, the dépôts stop us, the poor thread is arrested for a minute, and then the pulling begins again. Or, in another dream, we are like fugitives threading the gauntlet of the grim forests, while the ice-bound trees essay a charge of bayonets on either side; but, under the guidance of our fiery Mercury, we pass them as safely as ancient Priam passed the outposts of the Greeks,—and New York, hospitable as Achilles, receives us in its mighty tent. Here we await the "Karnak," the British Mail Company's new screw-steamer, bound for Havana, viâ Nassau. At length comes the welcome order to "be on board." We betake ourselves thither,—the anchor is weighed, the gun fired, and we take leave of our native land with a patriotic pang, which soon gives place to severer spasms. Less
- File size
- Print pages
- Publisher
- Publication date
- Language
- ISBN
- 178.154 KB
- 268
- Public Domain Books
- 2019-02-25
- English
- 9781372722066
Author
Related Books
Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand:
Mystic Isles of the South Seas:
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Volume 16:
Cruise of the Alert: Four Years in Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene Waters:
Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2:
Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay:
A foot in England:
The Korea Review, Vol. 5 No. 5, May 1905:
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy:
A Trip to Manitoba:
A Holiday in the Happy Valley With Pen and Pencil:
The Lake of the Sky, Lake Tahoe:
A Journey to Ohio in 1810: As Recorded in the Journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight:
From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn:
A Journey in Brazil:
On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California:
A Motor-Flight Through France:
California: The Land of the Sun:
Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile: Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England; New York; Canada; And the West; By Chauffeur:
White Shadows in the South Seas:
The Automobilist Abroad:
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy:
Dagonet Abroad:
England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel:
Yorkshire:
Join us and get access to all your favourite books
It’s free
