A Book of the Pyrenees

A Book of the Pyrenees

A Book of the PyreneesThis Book of the Pyrenees follows the same lines as my Book of...
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Author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine),1834-1924
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Language: English
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A Book of the Pyrenees

A Book of the Pyrenees

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A Book of the Pyrenees

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine),1834-1924
Format: eBook
Language: English

A Book of the Pyrenees

This Book of the Pyrenees follows the same lines as my Book of the Rhine and Book of the Riviera. It is not a guide, but an introduction to the chain, giving to the reader a sketch of the History of the Country he visits. 1 The wall of divisionA triple chainContrastsDeforestingThe Catalan of RoussillonThe Basque of NavarreRoman roadsThe three portsCentral ridgeTrough to the northWatershedGlacial morainesLakesCirquesAbrupt termination of the lower valleysCave dwellersDolmensThat of BuzyLandes of PontacqThe Iberian stockDevelopment of languageAuxiliary verbsThe Basque villages and people. The Pyrenees stand up as a natural wall of demarcation between two nations, the French and the Spaniards, just as the mountains of Dauphin sever the French from the Italians. It has been remarked that these natural barriers are thrown up to part Romance-speaking peoples, whereas the mountain ranges sink to comparative insignificance between the French and the Germans. Over the Jura the French tongue has flowed up the Rhone to Sierre, above the Lake of Geneva, so the Spanish or Catalan has overleaped the Pyrenees in Roussillon, and the Basque tongue has those who speak it in both cis-Pyrenean and trans-Pyrenean Navarre. The Pyrenees are the upcurled lips of the huge limestone sea-bed, that at some vastly remote period was snapped from east to west, and through the fissure thus2 formed the granite was thrust, lifting along with it the sedimentary rocks. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 52061
Author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

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