Through Spain to the Sahara

Résumé du livre

"Miss Edward's sketches are lively and original, and her volume supplies pleasant reading." -The Athenaeum

"In these entertaining pages, Miss Edwards tells us pleasantly and gracefully of her wanderings in Spain. All she writes is fresh and sparking." -The Examiner

"With a light pen, Miss Betham-Edwards has touched on personal adventures, curious customs, splendid scenery and people of note. She has had an eye for the picturesque and unusual, and she has had no desire to make out that anything she did was particularly wonderful or that she deserved great credit for the inevitable discomforts of travel she bore. She has in fact written a readable book of wanderings in a little-traveled region." -The New York Times

"Those who have unlimited time and money at command may choose to take the very circuitous route from this western world to Africa, that Miss Edwards and a lady friend appear to have pursued....These stories...suggest the idea that the 'regeneration of Algeria' is rather a distant matter, and that how it is to be accomplished is still an open question. But the energy of the French and other colonists contrasts strongly with the sleepy indifference of the Spaniards, and it appears certain enough that in conveniences for the traveler Algeria, though only the creation of yesterday, is very far ahead of proud old Castille. This is the point that tourists chiefly look to, and that the fact is so, Miss Edwards' handsome book establishes beyond a doubt; when it follows that they will better to visit Telemsen than Granada, the approach being at least quite as easy, and according to our authoress, the inhabitants far the more civilized and friendly to strangers." -The United Service Magazine