Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality

Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality

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Author: Endell, Fritz August Gottfried,1873-1955
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Language: English
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Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality

Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality

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Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality

$18.32 $9.16
Author: Endell, Fritz August Gottfried,1873-1955
Format: eBook
Language: English

Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality

The authors love of the subject is his only apology for his bold undertaking. First it was the filigree quality and the beauty of the delicate tracery of the wrought-iron signs in the picturesque villages of southern Germany that attracted his attention; then their deep symbolic significance exerted its influence more and more over his mind, and tempted him at last to follow their history back until he could discover its multifarious relations to the thought and feeling of earlier generations. For the shaping of the English text the author is greatly indebted to his American friends Mr. D. S. Muzzey, Mr. Emil Heinrich Richter, and Mr. Carleton Noyes. Old Tavern Signs [Pg 3] Without a question, the first journey that ever mortals made on this round earth was the unwilling flight of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden out into an empty world. Many of us who condemn this world as a vale of tears would gladly make the return journey into Paradise, picturing in bright colors the road that our first parents trod in bitterness and woe. Happy in a Paradise in which all the beauties of the first creation were spread before their eyes, where no enemies[Pg 4] lurked, and where even the wild beasts were faithful companions, Adam and Eve could not, with the least semblance of reason, plead as an excuse for traveling that constraint which springs from mans inward unrest striving for the perfect haven of peace beyond the vicissitudes of his lot. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 41869
Author: Endell, Fritz August Gottfried
Release Date: Jan 18, 2013
Format: eBook
Language: English

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