Faces and Places
By Sir Henry W. Lucy · Running time 6:59:11 · Humorous Fiction, Essays & Short Works
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Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, who wrote for the Daily News, a London newspaper. His open letter To Those About to Become Journalists rings as true today as when it was written. The first article, "Fred" Burnaby , includes a lively account of a balloon trip, while Night and Day on the Cars in Canada and Easter on Les Avants relate Lucy's experiences of rail travel at that time. Other travel tales ( A Night on a Mountain , Mosquitoes and Monaco , and Oysters and Arcachon ) provide an insig
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