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TWO SUMMERS IN GUYENNE
A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside
BY EDWARD HARRISON BARKER
Author of 'Wayfaring in France', 'Wanderings by Southern Waters,' ETC.
WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
[Illustration: G. Vuillies DOORWAY OF THE ABBEY CHURCH AT BEAULIEU
(CORRÈZE).]
PREFACE
Of the four summers which the writer of this 'Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside' spent by Aquitanian rivers, the greater part of two provided the impressions that were used in 'Wanderings by Southern Waters.' Although the earlier pages of the present work, describing the wild district of the Upper Dordogne, through which the author passed into Guyenne, belong, in the order of time, to the beginning of his scheme of travel in Aquitaine, the summers of 1892 and 1893, spent chiefly in Périgord and the Bordelais, furnished the matter of which this volume is mainly composed. Hence the title that has been given to it.